semasiology
Semantics; a discipline within linguistics concerned with the meaning of a word independent of its phonetic expression.
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Stylistics seemed to have become a four-letter-word in German semasiology, a fact that shows how far official German semasiology had shifted away from Reisig's initial outline, and how different it was from Bréal's semantics of language-use and Wegener's semantics of communication.
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek σημασία (sēmasía, “the meaning of a word”) + -ology.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry semasiology (CC BY-SA 4.0).