noun
Meaning 1
Synonym of stemmatics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stemmatics
Antonyms: none provided
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stemmatology
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noun
Meaning 2
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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology
- transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stemmatics
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts
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