STEMMATOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stemmatology mean? 

• STEMMATOLOGY (noun)
  The noun STEMMATOLOGY 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: STEMMATOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEMMATOLOGY (noun)

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 ("stemmatology" 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))