semantic bleaching
nounEtymology
From semantic + bleaching.
Definitions
The process of a term losing its intensity over time.
- Before answering the question regarding whether the Slavonic modals exhibit semantic bleaching or not, we have to describe the semantic space of modality as it is represented in three Slavonic languages.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for semantic bleaching. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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