lexicography

The process or work of writing, editing, or compiling a dictionary.

The art or science of compiling lexicons or wordbooks; the scientific exposition of the forms, pronunciation, signification, and history of words.

The act or process of making a dictionary.

The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.

The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.

The scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.

the act of writing dictionaries