iconics en · NOUN
Etymology
From icon + -ics. Compare Ancient Greek εἰκονικός (eikonikós, “relating to images”).
Meanings
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(uncountable) The study of images and symbols as a form of communication.
“Their aesthetic, if you haven't noticed, is about benign skin cancers, supernumerary nipples. Conventional tattoos belong firmly among the iconics of the hegemon. […]”
2014, William Gibson, “Death Cookie”, in The Peripheral, G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 6: