synsemantic

Having a meaning only when in the company of other words.

Adjective

  1. Having a meaning only when in the company of other words.
    • Here autosemantic symbols are understood as referring singly or distributively to independent particulars, whereas synsemantic symbols function merely as parts of autosemantic symbols. - 1970, Stephan Körner, Categorial...

Origin

From syn- + semantic.

Antonyms

autosemantic