iconomatic
- employing pictures to represent not objects themselves but the sound of their names
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Word Origin
C19: from Greek, from eikon image + onoma name
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Architecture and sculpture had attained there a great perfection, as well as ideographic and iconomatic writing (see p. 140).
The Races of ManJoseph Deniker