neology

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Some have more to do with neology than psychology.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper

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 Disraeli, Isaac

"Oh! neology, and all that sort of thing."

From Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 by MacDonald, George

Dean Milman's neology, the peculiarities of the Irvingites, and the dangerous Oxford tracts, were alternately denounced.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter