neologism
新词,新名词,新词解释,新名词解释
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Definitions
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- : a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- : the introduction or use of new words or new senses of existing words.
- : a new doctrine, especially a new interpretation of sacred writings.
- : Psychiatry. a new word, often consisting of a combination of other words, that is understood only by the speaker: occurring most often in the speech of schizophrenics.
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This neologism challenge is more restrictive than our Spelling Bee contest, whose results run today, since you can’t use a single “tile” more than once.
Many neologisms are portmanteaux, terms that combine two existing words.
Raniere made a big deal about patenting it, and spun wonky neologisms that obscured rather than explained what he was doing.
It inspired endless debate, countless think pieces, and a neologism that instantly penetrated mainstream culture.
In the blink of an eye a neologism was formed, half Turkish, half English.
Witness the ridiculous neologism “Jew-washing”—the latest, Jewiest entry in the “No True Scotsman” competition.
Captology is a neologism coined by BJ Fogg, director of the very Soviet-sounding Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab.
The label stuck, and a search for “santorum” delivers the neologism first.
Rossetti's "Yester-year" moreover, is an absurd and affected neologism; "Antan" is an excellent and living French word.
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.
But if dictionaries are to be the arbiters of language, in which of them shall we find neologism?