Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The science that deals with signs or sign language.
- noun The use of signs in signaling, as with a semaphore.
- noun Symptomatology.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The logical theory of signs, of the conditions of their fulfilling their functions, of their chief kinds, etc.
- noun The use of gestures to express thought.
- noun The sum of scientific knowledge concerning morbid symptoms and their pathological significance; symptomatology; semiotics.
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- noun
Semiotics , the study ofsigns .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek sēmeion, sign; see semiotic + –logy.]
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New Latin semaeologia, from Ancient Greek σημεῖον ("sign") + -logia ("-logy")
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For those who are not sure what semiology is, it might be simply defined as the interpretation of a culture's signs, remembering that just about everything may be taken as a sign.
Books of The Times; Clothing as Language (Published 1983) Anatole Broyard 1983
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