Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to neology or neologists; neological.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to neology; neological.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to,
neologisms .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Those narratives will flow a lot better without words like neologistic, numismatic, and nanotechnology cluttering things up.
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His prose, casually neologistic and making deft use of sci-fi tropes, is bracingly sharp.
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review
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Those narratives will flow a lot better without words like neologistic, numismatic, and nanotechnology cluttering things up.
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All are agreed that he was both a logophile and a bibliophile as attested to by his love of etymology and neologistic wordplay, and the over 10,000 books in his personal library.
Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)
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(He reprimanded me for using neologistic Italian-language performance directions but not conjugating the verbs correctly.)
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Impressively, the word is now ranked number four for new words of 2010 by a group of self-appointed purveyors of the neologistic world.
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(He reprimanded me for using neologistic Italian-language performance directions but not conjugating the verbs correctly.)
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Impressively, the word is now ranked number four for new words of 2010 by a group of self-appointed purveyors of the neologistic world.
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Though I have had some fun coming up with neologistic verb forms, based on the anglo-saxon tenses for defecate: As in, "Did you tweet?"
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In fact, I might even be inclined to argue that English is fundamentally a neologistic language.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Against descriptivism and prescriptivism:
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