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    [Noun]  | "ne*ol*o*gism" | \ nē-ˈä-lə-ˌji-zəm \


    1: a new word, usage, or expression

    2: a new word that is coined especially by a person affected with schizophrenia and is meaningless except to the coiner, and is typically a combination of two existing words or a shortening or distortion of an existing word


    Origin: 1772 ;

     Borrowed from French néologisme "the habit of forming new words, a newly formed word," from néologie "coining of new words" (from néo- {see: |neo-|neo-} + -logie {see: |-logy|-logy}) + -isme {see: |-ism|-ism};

    [Noun]  | "neologism" 


    1: a new word or expression or a new meaning of a word;


      * e.g., " ... scientific neologisms "



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     [ "neologism" ]

    1: Itself an invented word used exclusively pejoratively to dismiss newly coined words. Usually used to express distaste for words inconvenient to one's ideology.

      * e.g.,  ... Pederasts, a more perverse subtype of faggots, declare moralphobia a neologism. 

     [ "neologism" ]

    1: Words wikipedia, itself a neologism, finds inconvenient.

      * e.g.,  ... Wikipedia, itself a neologism, discourages the use of neologisms. 

     [ "neologism" ]

    1: The promotion of which is the sole purpose of urbandictionary's existence.

      * e.g.,  ... Urbandictionary is a collection of neologisms. 

     [ "neologism" ]

    1: a new word

      * e.g.,  ... he had created a neologism 

     [ "neologism" ]

    1: New words coined by the psychotic.

      * e.g.,  ... Pardon my apparent neologisms, they are colloquial terms I learned from my father. 

     [ "neologism" ]

    1: Yo realist good word! (and yes I know its a real word...now... thanks for the knowledge it's somewhat scarce around these parts!)

      * e.g.,  ... If I had a neologism I would be a neologist...no? 

     [ "neologism" ]

    1: n. New semen. From the Latin "neo" meaning new and from the American "gism" meaning stuff that pumps from a man's cock at orgasm.

      * e.g.,  ... "People who try to come up with neologisms to satisfy their egos are covered in neologism." 

     [ "neologism" ]

    1: The One's manjuice

      * e.g.,  ... Trinity was covered in neologism after the scene in Zion 

     [ "Neologically" ]

    1: An adverb meaning of, from or related to newly created words. It stems from Neology which in turn comes from the French ‘neologisme’ meaning a newly created word.

      * e.g.,  ... Urban Dictionary is a nuclear reactor, neologically speaking. 

     [ "Neologism" ]

    1: Basically, a new word that comes into a language through creatively using that language. Borrowed words from other languages and dialects are not neologisms.

      * e.g.,  ... Ebonics: Ebony Phonics  

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