neologism

nounnew word

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Word Origin & History

"practice of innovation in language," 1776, from French néologisme, from neo- (see neo-) + Greek logos "word" (see lecture (n.)). Meaning "new word or expression" is from 1803. Neological is attested from 1754.

Example Sentences for neologism

This Bohemian vocabulary is the hell of rhetoric and the paradise of neologism.

The latter (the word administration used as a verb) is the only instance of neologism I ever observed in Mr. Madison.

In this one ordinary speech seemed to have been insufficient to describe the blotch, and he had to resort to a neologism.

But it observed a very high standard of classical English, a little intolerant of neologism, but not stiff nor jejune.

The locution of which we have made use—passed to the state of—has been condemned as a neologism by M. Royer Collard.

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