What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Lexicology vs Phonetics - What's the difference?

lexicology | phonetics |

As nouns the difference between lexicology and phonetics

is that lexicology is the part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon while phonetics is the study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.

lexicology

Noun

  • (uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
  • * 1949 Journal of Theological Studies
  • The fifth is devoted to doctrine; the sixth and seventh to remarks on syntax and lexicology respectively.
  • (countable) A specific theory concerning the lexicon.
  • Derived terms

    * lexicological * lexicologically * lexicologist

    See also

    * semantics

    phonetics

    Noun

    (-)
  • (linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.
  • Anagrams

    *