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Semasiology

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See semantics.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A discipline within linguistics concerned with the meaning of a word independent of its phonetic expression.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The science of meanings or sense development (of words); the explanation of the development and changes of the meanings of words; -- more commonly referred to as semantics.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The science of the development and connections of the meanings of words; the department of significance in philology.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the branch of semantics that studies the cognitive aspects of meaning

Word Usage

"Marty's defense of this theory in opposition to nativism involves the descriptive semasiology, which was to be developed more fully in his subsequent writings, especially his main work, and is indeed the center piece of his philosophical endeavors."

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