neology
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Some have more to do with neology than psychology.
From Time Magazine Archive
At length they were so successful in their neology, that with great difficulty they understood one another.
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli
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.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Neolog′ic, -al, pertaining to neology: using new words.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
The whiteness and crystalline form of saltpetre presented a sufficient analogy to attach to it a similar name, neology being in those days not quite so common or so easy as at present.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
If it had been in one of those accepted as genuine and poetical I would have remembered the ballad, but my impression is that it was condemned as a fabrication for this and other neologies.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton
