Lexis vs. Lexeme — What's the Difference?

The total set of words in a language as distinct from morphology; vocabulary.

A lexeme ( (listen)) is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection. It is a basic abstract unit of meaning, a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single root word.

(linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language.

The fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language. Find, finds, found, and finding are forms of the English lexeme find.

Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations.

(linguistics) A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form.

The vocabulary used by a writer

(strictly) The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.

All of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function

(loosely) The set itself; a lexemic family.

(loosely) The word-form chosen to represent such a set or family.

(computing) An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token).

A minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'