Synonyms for neologism

Grammar : Noun

Spell : nee-ol-uh-jiz-uh m

Phonetic Transcription : niˈɒl əˌdʒɪz əm

Définition of neologism

Origin : "practice of innovation in language," 1776, from French néologisme, from neo- (see neo-) + Greek logos "word" (see lecture (n.)). Meaning "new word or expression" is from 1803. Neological is attested from 1754.

noun new word

Example sentences :

This Bohemian vocabulary is the hell of rhetoric and the paradise of neologism.
Extract from : « Bohemians of the Latin Quarter » by Henry Murger

The latter (the word administration used as a verb) is the only instance of neologism I ever observed in Mr. Madison.
Extract from : « Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States » by Martin Van Buren

In this one ordinary speech seemed to have been insufficient to describe the blotch, and he had to resort to a neologism.
Extract from : « Studies in Forensic Psychiatry » by Bernard Glueck

But it observed a very high standard of classical English, a little intolerant of neologism, but not stiff nor jejune.
Extract from : « A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) » by George Saintsbury

The locution of which we have made use—passed to the state of—has been condemned as a neologism by M. Royer Collard.
Extract from : « Les Misrables » by Victor Hugo

Antonyms for neologism

time-worn

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