English Explanatory Dictionary

semiosis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

semiosis semiosises

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.

Derived words

anthroposemiosis biosemiosis endosemiosis exosemiosis phytosemiosis semiosic zoosemiosis
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