Semiosis

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Coined by Charles Sanders Peirce to describe a process that interprets signs as referring to their objects, as described in his theory of sign relations, or semiotics.

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