Associations to the word «Lexicography»

Wiktionary

LEXICOGRAPHY, noun. The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
LEXICOGRAPHY, noun. (linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.

Dictionary definition

LEXICOGRAPHY, noun. The act of writing dictionaries.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley