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Neologism   Listen
noun
Neologism  n.  
1.
The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.
2.
A new word, phrase, or expression.
3.
A new doctrine; specifically, rationalism.





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"Neologism" Quotes from Famous Books



... system of servitude was ever so preposterous. A crude notion of popular freedom in the equality of ranks abolished the very designation of "servant," substituting the fantastic term of "helps." If there be any meaning left in this barbarous neologism, their aid amounts to little; their engagements are made by the week, and they often quit their domicile without ...
— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli
... controlled introspection. This science of the "internal facts of man" would thus be distinguished from the other natural sciences which are formed by the use of our outer senses, by external observation—that is to say, to use a neologism, by externospection. This verbal symmetry may satisfy for a moment minds given to words, but on reflection it is perceived that the distinction between introspection and externospection does not correspond to a fundamental and constant difference in the nature of things or ...
— The Mind and the Brain - Being the Authorised Translation of L'me et le Corps • Alfred Binet
... blank verse so well, as to convince the public, that the beauties of Klopstock can be naturalized without strangeness, and his peculiarities retained without affectation; that quaintness, the unavoidable companion of neologism, is as needless to genius, as hostile to grace; the hexameter, until it is familiar, must repel, and, when it is familiar, may annoy; that it wants a musical orderliness of sound; and that its cantering capricious movement ...
— Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 • Edward Ziegler Davis
... 37. "Perplex," neologism of the writer; used to indicate a phenomenon frequent in both normal and psychopathic subjects; to wit, a group of delimitable stimulus-ideas, persisting as such, and unadjusted—a complex of persisting ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... diffuseness, which led him to turn a thought in so many different ways as to weary the reader, a habit of clothing in popular expressions subtle and over-refined ideas, and, finally, a studied and far-fetched neologism.[143] ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux


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