componential analysis
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noun Linguistics.
the analysis of a set of related linguistic items, especially word meanings, into combinations of features in terms of which each item may be compared with every other, as in the analysis of man into the semantic features “male,” “mature,” and “human,” woman into “female,” “mature,” and “human,” girl into “female,” “immature,” and “human,” and bull into “male,” “mature,” and “bovine.”
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Origin of componential analysis
First recorded in 1945–50
Words nearby componential analysis
compline, complot, comply, compo, component, componential analysis, component of complement, componentry, compony, comport, comportance
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