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iconics

iconics noun: the study of images and symbols as a form of communication.

Noun

iconics (uncountable)

  1. The study of images and symbols as a form of communication.
    • “Their aesthetic, if you haven't noticed, is about benign skin cancers, supernumerary nipples. Conventional tattoos belong firmly among the iconics of the hegemon. […]”2014, William Gibson, “Death Cookie”, in The Peripheral, G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 6

Origin of iconics

From icon + -ics. Compare Ancient Greek εἰκονικός (eikonikós, “relating to images”).

Questions about iconics

What does iconics mean?
Iconics means the study of images and symbols as a form of communication.
What part of speech is iconics?
Iconics is a noun.

Words near iconics in the dictionary

  1. iconicize
  2. iconicized
  3. iconicizes
  4. iconicizing
  5. iconicness
  6. iconics
  7. iconification
  8. iconified
  9. iconifies
  10. iconify
  11. iconifying

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