Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Neologism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Innovation in language; the introduction of new words or new senses of old words.
- n. The invention or introduction of new ideas or views.
- n. Specifically, rationalistic views in theology.
Wiktionary
- n. The study or art of neologizing (creating new words).
- n. The act of introducing a new word into a language
- n. obsolete The holding of novel or rational religious views
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language.
- n. (Theol.) A new doctrine a doctrine at variance with the received interpretation of revealed truth; a new method of theological interpretation; rationalism.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of inventing a word or phrase
- n. a newly invented word or phrase
Examples
“And at least his success was unmistakable as to the precise literary effect he had intended, including a certain tincture of "neology" in expression -- nonnihil interdum elocutione novella parum signatum -- in the language of”
“The aging CBS anchorwoman did a segment on “neology,” which, as she defined it, is the invention of a word, or breathing new life into an old one.”
“Bainbridge reminds us that Thomas Jefferson wrote: I am a friend to neology.”
“News peer reputation survey, generated a spirited critique by David Giacalone on on the f/k/a blog, which is dedicated to "one-breath poetry & breathless punditry with haikuEsq," for engaging in "bad neology":”
“Interest in coinage, or neology, is closely akin to etymology, the history of coinage and semantic development.”
“But even the dictionary is not large enough for him, and he extends it this way and that, his daring neology creating consternation among the critic flies and other ephemera.”
“To the sincerely inquiring doubter, the striking way in which the truth of the Resurrection is exhibited must be most beneficial, but such a character we are compelled to believe is rare among those of the schools of neology.”
“For this was the age of Benthamism in social philosophy and "German neology" in biblical criticism.”
“He will feel the obligation not of the laws only, but of those affinities, avoidances, those mere preferences, of his language, which through the associations of literary history have become a part of its nature, prescribing the rejection of many a neology, many a license, many a gipsy phrase which might present itself as actually expressive.”
“He had first of all gone through a full curriculum in one of the old orthodox halls of the United States; he had then passed into Germany, where he had taken a course of neology and philosophy; and now he had come to Rome, where he intended to finish off with a course of Romanism.”
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘neology’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 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...
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big book gre
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These words are about words.
words on words. yyep.
codex, folio, lexicon, tome, word stock, wordbook, wordlist, palaver, word index, argot, parlance, doublespeak and 68 more...
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Reading Random
Got unknown words randomly
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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ologies
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The study of -ology
All the different studies.
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Neology
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"y"
idiosyncrasy, neology, ingenuity, vapidity, insipidity, insipidly, obstinacy, adipsy, dexterity, gramercy, disparity, personify and 15 more...
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Academese
Jargon and vocabulary used in Academia, especially in cultural studies
intertextuality, hermeneutics, hegemony, problematize, engender, signify, multivocality, paradigm, deconstruction, ethnograpy, praxis, decontextualize and 22 more...
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Funkalicious Vocab
Words I like. No particular reason why.
magnanimous, macilent, occam's razor, cacophony, capricious, contumacious, snollygoster, autochthon, cromulent, neology, ossicusp, eponym and 12 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for neology.
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