Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words, as by passing from one meaning of them to another.
Wiktionary
- n. Skill or cleverness in the coining of new words
- n. A skillfully or cleverly coined new word.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words.
Examples
“Although Time's editors were not in every instance necessarily responsible for the logodaedaly ascribed to them: the magazine served as the medium through which these coinages became known to millions.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘logodaedaly’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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dewORdie
Wordsmithing, linguistics, logic, and grammar
polyagglutination, morphosyntactic, textuality, tautology, synaloepha, logodaedaly, logogogue, largiloquent, sockdolager, phonotactics, asemic writing, philology and 5 more...
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Language, words, letters
backronym, Logogriph, logodaedaly, Acrostic, tmesis, pleonasm, sesquipedality, periphrasis, peroration, solecism, longueur, periphrastic and 8 more...
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Neologistics
Basically this is a "words about words" list with a focus on neologism generation in all its various forms.
wordplay, paronomasia, madeupical, logodaedaly, onomatopoeic, verbification, nominalization, recontextualization, spoonerism, typo recycling, sloganeer, wordsmith and 59 more...
pavonine Log`o`daed´a`ly
n. 1. Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co.
logodaedaly
Rare. a cunning with words; verbal legerdemain. Also logodaedalus. Jul 28, 2009
whichbe Arbitrary or capricious coinage of words. May 12, 2008
peritus "logodaedalus (Gk logos, 'word' + daedal, from Daedalus the mythical artist, thus) An artificer in words (e.g., a poet). Logodaedaly is verbal legerdemain.", J.A. Cuddon, A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (Blackwell; 1998), p. 477. Feb 8, 2008
seanahan "playing with words", nothing people on Wordie would like, as evidenced by the only 2 lists which it appears on. Nov 8, 2007