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Also known as sense, semantics, signification, meaning in literature

what the source or sender expresses, communicates, or conveys in their message to the observer or receiver, and what the receiver infers from the current context, for a word, phrase, sentence, or other particular linguistic form

AI overview

Meaning is what someone communicates through language and what the person receiving it understands based on the surrounding context. It matters because without shared meaning, we cannot successfully exchange ideas, understand each other, or communicate effectively.

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Instance of
property
Subclass of
intention
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Commons category
Meaning (philosophy of language)
native label
sémantika
studied by
semantics
opposite of
nonsense
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