sematology

From Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study”).

sematology (usually uncountable, plural sematologies)

1. The science of signs, particularly of verbal signs, in the operation of thinking and reasoning; the science of language as expressed by signs.

• seme
• sememe
• semantic
• semantics
• semasiology
• sematic
• semiotic
• semiotics

• sematology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sematology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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