Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A new word, expression, or usage.
- noun The creation or use of new words or senses.
- noun The invention of new words regarded as a symptom of certain psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia.
- noun A word so invented.
- noun Theology A new doctrine or a new interpretation of scripture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A new word or phrase, or a new use of a word.
- noun The use of new words, or of old words in new senses.
- noun A new doctrine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.
- noun A new word, phrase, or expression.
- noun A new doctrine; specifically, rationalism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase.
- noun linguistics (
uncountable ) The act or instance of coining, or uttering a new word. - noun psychiatry The newly coined, meaningless words or phrases of someone with a
psychosis , usuallyschizophrenia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a newly invented word or phrase
- noun the act of inventing a word or phrase
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mia_Nodecker: Sanotorun... the neologism neologism |nä�ë�ã¤lé�ë�jizé�m| noun a newly coined
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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For all that your neologism is pungent and to the point.
Is McCain About to ‘Refine’ His Withdrawal Plan, Too? « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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Whereas a neologism is normally understood to be a new word formed consciously, by a subjectivity in possession of itself and its language, in Balfour's essay subjecticity falls into play possibly by accident: "It could have been a typo, in this word that is not exactly a word: subjecticity."
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And give the word neologism to our language, as a root, and it should give us its fellow substantives, neology, neologist, neologization; its adjectives, neologous, neological, neologistical; its verb, neologize; and adverb neologically.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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And give the word neologism to our language, as a root, and it should give us it's fellow substantives, neology, neologist, neologisation; it's adjectives neologous, neological, neologistical, it's verb neologise, and adverb neologically.
Letters 1760
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The terms freeters (a neologism formed form the English word "free" and the German "Arbeiter", which indicates a person who gets by on menial jobs) and
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The terms freeters (a neologism formed form the English word "free" and the German "Arbeiter", which indicates a person who gets by on menial jobs) and
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Recent Links Tagged With "neologism" - JabberTags on October 20th, 2008 at 1: 34 pm:
Ballardian » Unique visual complexities: A review of Grande Anarca 2008
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Kendrick has a lengthy discussion of "pornography" as a nineteenth-century neologism from the Greek: "writing by or about whores."
Notes on 'How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision' 2006
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The French literary theorist Gérard Genette coined the neologism ‘paratext’ to describe subsidiary and secondary material such as prefaces, post-scripts, footnotes and illustrations, which illuminate, but are ultimately subservient to, the principle text.
Ballardian » Unique visual complexities: A review of Grande Anarca 2008
super-heather commented on the word neologism
and my favorite new word: wordie!
December 9, 2006
patiomensch commented on the word neologism
There are tons of neologisms on this site.
April 15, 2007
wsolberg commented on the word neologism
Thanks to Erin McKean for her help with the definition for my neologism "Impert." A person who makes valuable contributions in a field of knowledge despite lacking formal training or professional connections in that field. The impert's contributions typically diverge from conventional styles, thinking, or theories of experts.
December 11, 2012
terryp commented on the word neologism
Often employers are driven by Law and its acts and regulations. Fiduciary responsibility also enters into that equation. So the organisation has to do its due diligence. While proper form would indicate training directed at compliance would simple lip service in the form of berating and controlling workers through interviews and evaluations about nonsensical goals be called due DIKIGENCE?
November 18, 2015
alexz commented on the word neologism
once upon a time neologism was a neologism
https://books.google.ca/books?id=ErY_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA233
September 18, 2017