STEMMATICS as NOUN

  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 cladisitc analysis)
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • stemmatology also plays an
    Hypernyms(s) stemmatics is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower