neology
IPA: niˈɑɫʌdʒi
noun
- The study or art of neologizing (creating new words).
- (historical, originally derogatory) A reformist school of 18th- and 19th-century Christian theology influenced by doctrinal rationalism and the methods of historical criticism.
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Examples of "neology" in Sentences
- Did you make the neology
- It is undoubtedly a neology.
- I haven't heard about the neology.
- Glendora Curve is also a neology to me.
- I know the one who invented the neology.
- This word was a neology when it was coined.
- How words used for many decades will become neology
- It was one example of how we are now in the world of neology.
- First of all, it's trademarked, so it escapes any questions of neology.
- Bainbridge reminds us that Thomas Jefferson wrote: I am a friend to neology.
- At length they were so successful in their neology, that with great difficulty they understood one another.
- Interest in coinage, or neology, is closely akin to etymology, the history of coinage and semantic development.
- The aging CBS anchorwoman did a segment on “neology,” which, as she defined it, is the invention of a word, or breathing new life into an old one.
- News peer reputation survey, generated a spirited critique by David Giacalone on on the f/k/a blog, which is dedicated to "one-breath poetry & breathless punditry with haikuEsq," for engaging in "bad neology":
- And at least his success was unmistakable as to the precise literary effect he had intended, including a certain tincture of "neology" in expression -- nonnihil interdum elocutione novella parum signatum -- in the language of
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