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semiosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.35 in modern English

Syllables
semio-sis
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Coined by Charles Sanders Peirce to describe a process that interprets signs as referring to their objects, as described in his theory of sign relations, or semiotics.

Usage

Inflected Forms

semiosises (plural)

Derived Forms

anthroposemiosis biosemiosis endosemiosis exosemiosis phytosemiosis semiosic zoosemiosis

Questions

What does semiosis mean?
Any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning.
Where does semiosis come from?
Coined by Charles Sanders Peirce to describe a process that interprets signs as referring to their objects, as described in his theory of sign relations, or semiotics.

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