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A newly invented word or phrase
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neology
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The study or art of neologize (creating new words). 2 The act of introducing a new word into a language 3 (context obsolete English) The holding of novel or rational religious views
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a newly invented word or phrase [syn: neologism , coinage ] the act of inventing a word or phrase [syn: neologism , coinage ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Neology or Neologism , is an expression most frequently associated with the coining of new words, from the Greek root (Neo-: new, and Logos-: the word). This practice may be compared with other less mentally intensive, although sometimes computationally ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neology \Ne*ol"o*gy\, n. [Neo- + -logy: cf. F. n['e]ologie.] The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of neology. A new doctrine; esp. (Theol.), ...
Usage examples of neology.
Lancelot might as well have held his tongue--nobody understood him but Vieuxbois, and he had been taught to scent German neology in everything, as some folks are taught to scent Jesuitry, especially when it involved an inductive law, and not a mere red-tape precedent, and, therefore, could not see that Lancelot was arguing for him.
Lancelot might as well have held his tongue--nobody understood him but Vieuxbois, and he had been taught to scent German neology in everything, as some folks are taught to scent Jesuitry, especially when it involved an inductive law, and not a mere red-tape precedent, and, therefore, could not see that Lancelot was arguing for him.
I set equal value on the beautiful engraftments we have borrowed from Greece and Rome, and I am equally a friend to the encouragement of a judicious neology.
And give the word neologism to our language, as a root, and it should give us it's fellow substantives, neology, neologist, neologisation.