ideography
(ɪdiː-, aɪdiːˈɒgrəfɪ)
Also erron. ideagraphy.
[f. Gr. ἰδέα idea + -graphy. Cf. F. idéographie.]
The direct representation of ideas by graphic signs, as distinguished from phonetic symbols; writing consisting of ideographs.
| 1836 T. How (title) Ideagraphy. 1846 Worcester, Ideography, a system or treatise of short-hand writing. 1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Sept. 278 An erudite introduction upon North American ‘Ideography’. 1869 Farrar Fam. Speech iv. (1873) 120 They invented writing, but it stopped at hieroglyphics and ideography. |