noemen.
/ˈnəʊiːm/, U.S. /ˈnoʊˌim/ Linguistics.
A meaning or concept as an aspect of a unit of speech.
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a1866 J. Grote in Jrnl. Philol. (1872) 4 55 It will be necessary for me to make use of one or two new-coined words, which I will begin by defining as accurately as I can... When I mean words as thought I shall use the term noem.
a1866 J. Grote in Jrnl. Philol. (1872) 4 56 Logically, a noem may be called a concept, a notion, or what we will; but I would have the term bear simply a relation to language, and mean the thought-word, that, whatever it is, which the sound stands for.
1926 L. Bloomfield in Language 2 161 The meaning of a glosseme is a noeme.
1940 Mod. Lang. Q. June 178 I have recently encountered the enthymeme,..the noeme, the philosopheme, [etc.].
1990 Eng. World-wide 237 By making the word (and not the sememe/noeme) his point of reference, and by including cases of cultural/lexical gaps, he arrives at a total of twenty categories.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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