semiurgic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to semiurgy; involving the creation of new meanings through the production of signifiers.
Example Sentences
- "Baudrillard (1981, 185f.) describes the transition from a metallurgic society, defined as a society of production, to a semiurgic order characterized by the proliferation of signs, simulacra, and images."
- "Baudrillard's semiurgic culture is thus infused with simulated codes and models that actually produce the reality which they purport to represent (Seidman, 1994)."
- ""Semiurgic indeterminacy" means the impossibility of deciding whether the meanings of drama should be classified as signification or as reference: signification being that semiurgic or sign-working process (normally recognized as dominant in literature) in which the signifier is prior in operation to the signified, which latter itself always has the character of a sign, not that of a somehow nonsignifying reality; reference being that process (normally thought of as characterizing daily experience) in which the sign responds to a prior "referent," which has, at least relatively, the character of preexisting reality."
- "The dictionary entry, as a semiurgic genre, is an important form of semiotic discourse that comprehensively describes a verbal sign as a unity of the signifier, the signified, and the context/usage."
Etymology
From semiurgy + -ic.