psychosemantic

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Etymology

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From psycho- +‎ semantic.

Adjective

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psychosemantic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to psychosemantics.
    • 2009, Jonathan Cohen, The Red and the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology, →ISBN, page viii:
      Although the topic of psychosemantics might, at first blush, seem to be remote from the present concerns about color ontology, it has sometimes been alleged that the argument from perceptual variation that we have been considering depends in a certain way on psychosemantic matters -- or, at least, on the unsatisfactory status of extant psychsemantic theorizing.