semanteme

noun

semanteme

noun

Etymology From semantic + -eme.

1

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences an indivisible unit of meaning.

Toong Cheong spoke more rapidly now, and urgency and embarrassment reduced his speech to essential semantemes.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 53:

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