semantic satiation

Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon where repeating a word or phrase many times causes it to temporarily lose its meaning, making it sound like a meaningless collection of sounds. This occurs because repeated activation of a neural pathway to a word's meaning can cause temporary fatigue or inhibition, leading the brain to re-regulate its focus and temporarily cease to process the word's meaning.

I kept repeating the word 'crowded' over and over for a minute, and by the end, it just sounded like a weird noise—total semantic satiation!

by Emotional Cruiser October 12, 2025

semantic

1. a number that just increases every time someone does something, because doing things properly is hard.

Ive just made a code change. I expect semantic versioning to automatically increment, because bumping a version up (0.0.1 -> 0.0.2) by 1 is hard.

by anonymous April 20, 2023

Semantic Fidelity

When words still carry their original meaning instead of getting twisted by algorithms, brands, or culture. The opposite of when “authentic” somehow means staged. High semantic fidelity = language actually says what it means.

“Bro, that ad copy has zero semantic fidelity. It’s like reading a chatbot trained on vibes.”

by GuyWhoWritesDefinitions September 4, 2025

Semantic Solipsism

In Philosophy A term, developed by Palestinian Professor Mohammad Tarshihi; used to describe the reality of knowledge of terms incorporated only by the self. Wherein, any linguistic property developed by one's self renders a universal truth value.

Semantic Solipsism explains why I can't differentiate between predictable and expected.

by IonicBondzzzz April 3, 2021

Latent Neurolese Semantic Encoder

A neural architecture that performs semantic compression using nuclear diversity preservation, operating in pure vector space to bypass linguistic tokenization while maintaining conceptual understanding. The system compresses high-dimensional embeddings (e.g., 384D → 256D) through a teacher-student knowledge distillation framework that employs extreme weighting to prevent mode collapse, creating mathematical "semantic GPS coordinates" where related concepts cluster in measurable dimensional neighborhoods.

The Latent Neurolese Semantic Encoder achieved 6x inference speedup and 35% memory reduction while maintaining 63.5% semantic preservation through its nuclear diversity training methodology, demonstrating that AI systems can reason directly with compressed mathematical concepts rather than linguistic tokens.

by Trentism July 9, 2025

semantic regime change

When the meaning of words shifts so drastically that reality itself starts to feel like a glitch. Usually driven by cultural agendas, internet discourse, or corporate rebranding.

Examples:

"First, 'disruption' meant innovation—now it means getting laid off. Another semantic regime change, baby."

"Remember when 'outside' meant nature and not just…vibes? Total semantic regime change."

See also: gaslighting, linguistic coup, reality distortion field

by atalaocean March 17, 2025