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semiosis

semiosis noun: any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning.

Noun

semiosis (countable and uncountable, plural semiosises)

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

Forms of semiosis

pluralsemiosises

Origin of semiosis

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.

Words formed from semiosis

Questions about semiosis

What does semiosis mean?
Semiosis means any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning.
What part of speech is semiosis?
Semiosis is a noun.
What is the plural of semiosis?
The plural of semiosis is semiosises.

Words near semiosis in the dictionary

  1. semiorganizational
  2. semiorganized
  3. semioriental
  4. semiorthogonal
  5. semiosic
  6. semiosis
  7. semiosises
  8. semiosphere
  9. semiospheres
  10. semiosseous
  11. semiostracism

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