neologismn.
/nɪˈɒlədʒɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /niˈɑləˌdʒɪz(ə)m/ 1.
a. A word or phrase which is new to the language; one which is newly coined.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [noun] > new word or phrase
mint-phrase1631
neologism1772
neoterism1794
neology1801
mintage1834
coinage1873
1772 J.-N. de Sauseuil Anal. French Orthogr. 163 Observations on this Neologism... I thought indeed I was intirely done with this Canon when I came to the explication of the last word Hecaterogenosem.
1792 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 82 409 Neologisms are often so troublesome, and sometimes so arbitrarily introduced into languages, that I shall only endeavour to determine the sense of the word moisture, according to cases, so as to avoid ambiguity.
1803 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 104 Scotticisms, neologisms..dance through each page.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 205 Since that day neologisms have fertilised the barrenness of our Saxon.
1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. ii. 52 The class which, to use a modern neologism, ‘formulates’ the ideas [etc.].
1928 S. Moore & J. A. Key tr. R. Leriche & A. Policard Normal & Pathol. Physiol. of Bone i. 24 Recently, several histologists have tried to make the Haversian systems the structural units of bone, and have given them the name of osteons. This neologism is useless.
1949 C. E. O'Hara & J. W. Osterburg Introd. to Criminalistics p. x The authors have decided, for the purposes of the present text, to use the name criminalistics in referring to the work of the police laboratory. This is not entirely a neologism. The words Kriminalistik, criminalistique, and criminalistica are in common use in continental Europe.
1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 4 Jan. 24/5 His dopey title..and his invention of the most graceless neologism I've seen in years—‘disconfirm’—do nothing for his argument.
b. The coining or use of new words or phrases.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [noun]
word-making1553
coininga1680
coinage1693
neoterism1794
neologism1796
neology1797
neologization1820
neonism1829
minting1841
neoterizing1873
1793 H. Walpole in M. Berry Extracts Jrnls. & Corr. (1865) I. 485 The..1berociser, sansculotiser, pantheoniser, etc., of French neologisme.]
1796 J. Watt Consid. Medicinal Use Factitious Airs (ed. 2) ii. 2 The author wishes to shun the imputation of neologism.
1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 10 318 Quaintness, the unavoidable companion of neologism, is..hostile to grace.
1851 T. De Quincey On Present State Eng. Lang. in Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 6 97/1 Neologism, in revolutionary times, is not an infirmity of caprice.
1895 G. Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. 2nd Ser. 34 Not..alarmed at an appearance of neologism now and then.
1970 Composer & Conductor Aug. 6/1 I myself [sc. N. Slonimsky] ventured into musical neologism with Pandiatonicism to describe a 20th-century technique in which all seven tones of the diatonic scale are used freely in dissonant combinations.
1991 Internat. Jrnl. Lexicography 4 i. 28 The reportage of realistic neologism, then, accelerates cultural evolution.
c. Psychiatry. A nonsense word interpolated in an otherwise correct sentence by a person suffering from a neuropsychiatric disorder, esp. schizophrenia.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > disturbed speech > word
neologism1905
1905 A. J. Rosanoff tr. J. Rogues de Fursac Man. Psychiatry ii. 46 Neologisms the meaning of which may remain absolutely enigmatical to the patient himself.
1905 A. J. Rosanoff tr. J. Rogues de Fursac Man. Psychiatry viii. 200 Neologisms are frequent in the period of dementia.
1932 A. Cannon & E. D. T. Hayes Princ. & Pract. of Psychiatry 378 The verbal repetition of these ‘new’ words—neologisms or senseless words invented by himself.
1960 R. F. C. Hull tr. C. G. Jung Coll. Wks. III. i. 25 Word-formations, which are so bizarre that they immediately bring to mind the neologisms of dementia praecox.
1973 O. Sacks Awakenings iv. 79 His thinking and speaking became more and more splintered, and full of neologisms.
1990 Brain 113 211 Motor dysgraphia with right hand in the absence of orthographic disturbances, agrammatism, and neologisms.
2. Theology. The holding or adoption of novel (esp. rationalistic) views; rationalism. Now rare.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > kinds of religions > [noun] > natural
natural religion1622
religion of nature1622
naturalisma1641
neologism1827
nature-religion1853
pre-animism1910
society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > systems of theology > [noun] > Rationalistic
new light1649
rationalisma1732
neologism1827
neology1830
neologianism1846
modernism1878
neo-modernism1973
1827 Eclectic Rev. July 15 Neologism, a system which is not confined to Germany, but has been zealously fostered in other countries.
1851 S. Wilberforce Let. in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1881) II. iii. 108 I have seen for twenty-six years that Neologism was the peril which was before the English Church.
1865 Guardian 19 Apr. 401/2 However despicable..the temper of modern neologism may be.
1908 F. Thilly tr. A. Weber Hist. Philos. iii. §54 Accused of neologism and atheism by the Jesuits of France and the severe Calvinists of Holland.
Derivatives
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [adjective]
new fashion1745
neological1754
neologous1812
neologismal1836
neoteristic1873
neologistic1935
1836 New Monthly Mag. Dec. 455 The neologismal appellatives, ‘tiger’, and ‘tigerism’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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