thesaurus

A semantheon has groups of pairs; every pair has two opposite primes, each of which has a lexigraph, a tree of clustered synonyms. A semantheon is a hierarchical map of all meaning, and it can work in any language.

Here are the groups: space, time, quantity, quality, evaluations, emotions, interactions, change.

Here’s a story about the sequence of

Here is what AI suggests are the differences between synonyms:

Connotation: Connotation refers to the emotional or cultural associations that a word carries beyond its literal meaning (denotation). For example, "slender," "thin," and "skinny" might be considered synonyms, but each has a different connotation – "slender" is often positive, "thin" is

What are the irreducible semantic units behind any language? I want to figure that out, draw them in 50 or so diagrams, and put it on a poster.

David Whyte’s “Consolations” is something like a poetic thesaurus.

Dean’s Thesaurus: 1,000 words to save us from extinction (logo: dinosaur)

Apparently Microsoft Word said that “charming” and “chocolate box” are synonyms. This is a thesaurus gone wild. I wonder how much computers promoted the idea of all synonyms being interchangeable.

lemma (n.) : a family of words that all share the same words (ie: develop = development, developing, developmental, underdeveloped, redevelop, etc.)

A thesaurus is a word treasury.