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neologism

[ UK /niːˈə‍ʊləd‍ʒˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a newly invented word or phrase
  2. the act of inventing a word or phrase

How To Use neologism In A Sentence

  • ‘I am not afraid of neologism,’ wrote the fearless Professor Fowler.
  • Who is there to restrain this kudzulike growth of stupid neologisms like "eggcorn"? "She seems like a real fighter, someone who would stick it to the lobbyist and special-interest groups that have run ramped in Washington."
  • This stance can be better described by the neologism apatheism. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • I was imagining a full hybridized America in the 21st century and trying to coin all these neologisms to explain what America would look like.
  • It’s now almost as outdated in the neologism dodge as the suffixes -arama and -aholic. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • And give the word neologism to our language, as a root, and it should give us it's fellow substantives, neology, neologist, neologisation; it's adjectives neologous, neological, neologistical, it's verb neologise, and adverb neologically. Letters
  • Mr Edwards may also be interested to know that, far from being an American neologism coined by Professor Churchwell, hierarchize has been with us for over 100 years at least since its use in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1884. Letters: The 'ize' have it
  • Lewis Carroll used the term portmanteau to describe a neologism with “two meanings packed up into one word”; his nonsense verse Jabberwocky (pictured) is full of them. June « 2008 « Sentence first
  • Yet, many neologisms sneak in unnoticed and many exist for some time, only later to attract adverse attention.
  • We've become accustomed to accepting the fact that popular culture comes out of America mostly, and so does this make the United States the source of most neologisms say since the '40s?
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