neology

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Some have more to do with neology than psychology.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this was the age of Benthamism in social philosophy and "German neology" in biblical criticism.

From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by Brodrick, George C. (George Charles)

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

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

Mr. Milburn, in one of his chapters, gives an account of his passage through what he is pleased to call neology and rationalism.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 by Various