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STEMMATICS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stemmatics mean?
• STEMMATICS (noun)
The noun STEMMATICS has 1 sense:
1. the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)
Familiarity information: STEMMATICS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
stemmatics; stemmatology
Context example:
transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics
Hypernyms ("stemmatics" is a kind of...):
arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))
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