| semantic aphasia | <neurology> Aphasia in which objects are correctly named; there is little disturbance in the articulation of words. Individual words are understood, but the broader meaning of what is heard cannot be grasped. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| semantic differential | Analysis of word concepts by the association of polar adjectives, e.g., good-bad, with the concept, father. The adjectives are usually scaled in 7 steps. The subject's placement of the concept on the adjectival scale indicates the connotative meaning of the concept. (12 Dec 1998) |
| semantics | The relationships between symbols and their meanings. (12 Dec 1998) |