semiotic

se·mi·ot·ic

noun \-ˈät-ik\

plural semiotics

Definition of SEMIOTIC

: a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics

—semiotic adjective

Variants of SEMIOTIC

se·mi·ot·ic or se·mi·ot·ics \-iks\