onomasiologique

OBS: onomasiologie : Étude sémantique qui consiste à partir d'un concept pour rechercher les signes linguistiques qui lui correspondent. [...] La démarche onomasiologique s'oppose à la démarche sémasiologique.

CONT: Traditional terminological theory ... identifies its approach as ""onomasiological,"" i.e., a ""naming"" approach, because in principle it starts from concepts and looks for the names of these concepts. By contrast, the lexicographical approach is called ""semasiological,"" i.e., a ""meaning"" approach, because it starts from words and looks for their meaning.
OBS: onomasiology: the study of the means of expressing a given concept.