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idiographic [De].Term used to describe a form of writing in which the signs or characters represent ideas. Ideographic writing may use either crude pictures copied from nature (pictograph) or symbols derived from pictures which express objects or ideas.
Particularistic; unique; specific as opposed to general.
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