classeme
nounEtymology From class + -eme.
1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences, Semiotics A generic or contextual seme, denoting a group of objects.
- Given that "bark" has two classemes, human and canine, it is the presence of the dog or the commissioner that decides whether "bark" is taken in a literal or figurative sense.1986, Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, →ISBN, page 190:
- Derived terms
- classemic