Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

desemanticization

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-se-man-ti-ciza-tion
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The loss or removal of all or part of the original semantic content (meaning) of a word or morpheme, sometimes (but not always) as part of grammaticalization.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] Desemanticization By this process, a lexical item receives a second, non-lexical function, which may ultimately become its only function. Thus, in addition to its lexical meaning, a word receives […] Once again, this leads to the desemanticization of lexical meaning, namely that of the action verbs […]"
"Desemanticization. The meaning of forms tends to shift from more concrete to more abstract in grammaticalization. This happens through the loss of concrete semantic features that were part of the original form but have been “bleached out” […]"

Usage

Uncountable

Frequently Paired Words

bleaching decategorialization

Synonyms

desemantization

Questions

What does desemanticization mean?: The loss or removal of all or part of the original semantic content (meaning) of a word or morpheme, sometimes (but not always) as part of grammaticalization.

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