semantically

American  

[si-man-tik-lee] / sɪˈmæn tɪk li /

adverb

1. in a way that relates to the different meanings of words or other signs or symbols.

   Humans have developed languages that are semantically rich and can cope easily with philosophical concepts.

2. in a way that deliberately takes advantage of the connotations or associations attached to certain words.

   He deals with this bombing campaign semantically by saying it is “not a war” since there are “no hostile troops on the ground.”

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Other Word Forms

• nonsemantically adverb
• pseudosemantically adverb

Etymology

Origin of semantically

semantic ( def. ) + -ally ( def. )

Example Sentences

Additionally, she said, the way users generate queries is not semantically different for the different stages of motivation, so it's not obvious from the language what their motivational states are.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2024

Developers have to feed the network a number of texts so that it learns which words appear in similar environments and are thus semantically similar.

From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2023

But before we test said parameters, let's establish them, semantically.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2021

How do you approach something like that, which is a lot more diffuse if you can’t semantically read into the posts?

From The Verge • Jan. 19, 2021

Second, the two elements being compared should be grammatically and semantically parallel, a requirement that’s easy to flub when the first is complex.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker