Definition of neologism in English:

neologism

noun nɪˈɒlədʒɪz(ə)mniˈɑləˌdʒɪzəm

1A newly coined word or expression.
新词；新表达法
Example sentencesExamples
- Because the golden crucible of creative neologisms so often has a surface scum of knee-jerk, cliché-ridden, automatic invention.
- Politicians invent neologisms and use words in a very imaginative way.
- We've become accustomed to accepting the fact that popular culture comes out of America mostly, and so does this make the United States the source of most neologisms say since the '40s?
- You will appreciate that I spend much of my time reading the newspapers in order to turn up neologisms and other interesting terms.
- His work routinely exhibits a Joycean verbal playfulness and exuberance, and is littered with inventive neologisms and mixed metaphors.
- I was imagining a full hybridized America in the 21st century and trying to coin all these neologisms to explain what America would look like.
- He chose antiquated vocabulary, from religious literature and classical poetry, and avoided neologisms.
- Like many neologisms (new words), ‘dis’ is formed by chopping the front off a longer word.
- Stylistically, the language was riddled with neologisms and foreign terms, and the composition was muddled by excessive ornaments.
- Elevation is lent to his language by archaic and poetic words and an admixture of neologisms, while his extensive use of metaphor more closely resembles poetic than prose usage.
- Radner writes long, convoluted sentences and regularly coins neologisms; he also employs words without much sensitivity to the alternative associations that they are likely to breed in the minds of the reader.
- I'm sure the Harry's Place commentariat can come up with inventive neologisms to describe political concepts recently arisen…
- Chemists are constantly inventing new molecular words, expanding the language - and some of these neologisms are rather witty.
- Yet, many neologisms sneak in unnoticed and many exist for some time, only later to attract adverse attention.
- Mr Rowan said neologisms (new words) were often invented by certain groups to make themselves feel exclusive.
- I wouldn't call them neologisms because a neologism is a new word that has immediate definition or sense.
- Vauban never spared himself during the process, and was always on hand, muttering away in a Burgundian dialect littered with forceful neologisms.
- The antonym to tight is not ‘loose’ - logic has no place in the coinage of neologisms - but janky, also spelled and pronounced jinky or jainky.
- But if you dress up the idea in a forbidding vocabulary, full of neologisms and recondite references to philosophy, then you may have a prescription for academic stardom.
- The terms he used, positive and negative, plus and minus, are still the terms we use today; so are the neologisms he created to describe his findings: battery, charged, neutral, condense, and conductor.
Synonyms
new word, new expression, new term, new phrase, coinage, newly coined word, made-up word, invented word, invention, nonce word
portmanteau word
1. 1.1mass noun The coining or use of new words.
  造词；新词的使用
  Example sentencesExamples
  At the risk of coining a fourth type (writers are only allowed one neologism per article) we could say that the global economy (and its attendant pollution) is itself 4th nature.
  ‘I am not afraid of neologism,’ wrote the fearless Professor Fowler.
  Like Clark Coolidge, whose verve depends on malapropism, neologism, and ricochet, Roberts bounces back and forth within a multivalent vocabulary.
  Substituting catachresis for neologism lends the good historian another way of thinking about linguistic terms extralinguistically and the means to treat terms in thought-as if thinking, too, were an unexplored, historical datum.
  Their attempts to get around these logical points generally result in an orgy of neologism and grammatical originality that gives me eye-ache.
  Justifying speciesism takes us back to square one, but with an ugly, misleading and tendentious neologism thrown in.
  No recondite phrase or pleasing neologism, it is a wordless summons like that made by the infant in distress.

Derivatives

neologist

noun

Although, thinking about it, I'm sure my vocabulary has been enlarged in previously unexplored directions by the energetic neologists of spam.
Example sentencesExamples
- In 2001 Hebden perfected what neologists might term ‘folktronica’ on Pause, a late summer's melange of delicate found-sound sonics and charmingly recontextualised acoustic melodies and beats.
- Always the playful neologist (pertussion is his coinage from the technical term for whooping cough, pertussis), Wallace has lately become a professor of literature.
- So how did 20th century neologists go about creating new words?
- She calls herself an intactivist, neologist and birthkeeper.

neologize

verb nɪˈɒlədʒʌɪzniˈɑləˌdʒaɪz

[no object]

Coin new words or expressions.
新词；新表达法
a resourceful country that can neologize creatively
Example sentencesExamples
- with object he neologized many new words modelled upon Arabic
- There are words borrowed from Chinese dialect and Malay and some of which are neologised from the vernacular.
- We have discovered a rich new seam of zeitgeist, and the publishers are neologising all the way to the bank.
- Apparently, they had no idea that cos was short for because, and typically neologised into cuz in the states.

Origin

Early 19th century: from French néologisme.

Definition of neologism in US English:

neologism

nounnēˈäləˌjizəmniˈɑləˌdʒɪzəm

1A newly coined word or expression.
新词；新表达法
Example sentencesExamples
- Because the golden crucible of creative neologisms so often has a surface scum of knee-jerk, cliché-ridden, automatic invention.
- Chemists are constantly inventing new molecular words, expanding the language - and some of these neologisms are rather witty.
- The terms he used, positive and negative, plus and minus, are still the terms we use today; so are the neologisms he created to describe his findings: battery, charged, neutral, condense, and conductor.
- Yet, many neologisms sneak in unnoticed and many exist for some time, only later to attract adverse attention.
- We've become accustomed to accepting the fact that popular culture comes out of America mostly, and so does this make the United States the source of most neologisms say since the '40s?
- But if you dress up the idea in a forbidding vocabulary, full of neologisms and recondite references to philosophy, then you may have a prescription for academic stardom.
- Elevation is lent to his language by archaic and poetic words and an admixture of neologisms, while his extensive use of metaphor more closely resembles poetic than prose usage.
- He chose antiquated vocabulary, from religious literature and classical poetry, and avoided neologisms.
- Mr Rowan said neologisms (new words) were often invented by certain groups to make themselves feel exclusive.
- Politicians invent neologisms and use words in a very imaginative way.
- The antonym to tight is not ‘loose’ - logic has no place in the coinage of neologisms - but janky, also spelled and pronounced jinky or jainky.
- I'm sure the Harry's Place commentariat can come up with inventive neologisms to describe political concepts recently arisen…
- Stylistically, the language was riddled with neologisms and foreign terms, and the composition was muddled by excessive ornaments.
- His work routinely exhibits a Joycean verbal playfulness and exuberance, and is littered with inventive neologisms and mixed metaphors.
- Vauban never spared himself during the process, and was always on hand, muttering away in a Burgundian dialect littered with forceful neologisms.
- Radner writes long, convoluted sentences and regularly coins neologisms; he also employs words without much sensitivity to the alternative associations that they are likely to breed in the minds of the reader.
- Like many neologisms (new words), ‘dis’ is formed by chopping the front off a longer word.
- You will appreciate that I spend much of my time reading the newspapers in order to turn up neologisms and other interesting terms.
- I was imagining a full hybridized America in the 21st century and trying to coin all these neologisms to explain what America would look like.
- I wouldn't call them neologisms because a neologism is a new word that has immediate definition or sense.
Synonyms
new word, new expression, new term, new phrase, coinage, newly coined word, made-up word, invented word, invention, nonce word
1. 1.1 The coining or use of new words.
  造词；新词的使用
  Example sentencesExamples
  Substituting catachresis for neologism lends the good historian another way of thinking about linguistic terms extralinguistically and the means to treat terms in thought-as if thinking, too, were an unexplored, historical datum.
  Justifying speciesism takes us back to square one, but with an ugly, misleading and tendentious neologism thrown in.
  Like Clark Coolidge, whose verve depends on malapropism, neologism, and ricochet, Roberts bounces back and forth within a multivalent vocabulary.
  ‘I am not afraid of neologism,’ wrote the fearless Professor Fowler.
  Their attempts to get around these logical points generally result in an orgy of neologism and grammatical originality that gives me eye-ache.
  No recondite phrase or pleasing neologism, it is a wordless summons like that made by the infant in distress.
  At the risk of coining a fourth type (writers are only allowed one neologism per article) we could say that the global economy (and its attendant pollution) is itself 4th nature.

Origin

Early 19th century: from French néologisme.

单词	neologism
释义	Definition of neologism in English: neologism noun nɪˈɒlədʒɪz(ə)mniˈɑləˌdʒɪzəm 1A newly coined word or expression. 新词；新表达法 Example sentencesExamples Because the golden crucible of creative neologisms so often has a surface scum of knee-jerk, cliché-ridden, automatic invention. Politicians invent neologisms and use words in a very imaginative way. We've become accustomed to accepting the fact that popular culture comes out of America mostly, and so does this make the United States the source of most neologisms say since the '40s? You will appreciate that I spend much of my time reading the newspapers in order to turn up neologisms and other interesting terms. His work routinely exhibits a Joycean verbal playfulness and exuberance, and is littered with inventive neologisms and mixed metaphors. I was imagining a full hybridized America in the 21st century and trying to coin all these neologisms to explain what America would look like. He chose antiquated vocabulary, from religious literature and classical poetry, and avoided neologisms. Like many neologisms (new words), ‘dis’ is formed by chopping the front off a longer word. Stylistically, the language was riddled with neologisms and foreign terms, and the composition was muddled by excessive ornaments. Elevation is lent to his language by archaic and poetic words and an admixture of neologisms, while his extensive use of metaphor more closely resembles poetic than prose usage. Radner writes long, convoluted sentences and regularly coins neologisms; he also employs words without much sensitivity to the alternative associations that they are likely to breed in the minds of the reader. I'm sure the Harry's Place commentariat can come up with inventive neologisms to describe political concepts recently arisen… Chemists are constantly inventing new molecular words, expanding the language - and some of these neologisms are rather witty. Yet, many neologisms sneak in unnoticed and many exist for some time, only later to attract adverse attention. Mr Rowan said neologisms (new words) were often invented by certain groups to make themselves feel exclusive. I wouldn't call them neologisms because a neologism is a new word that has immediate definition or sense. Vauban never spared himself during the process, and was always on hand, muttering away in a Burgundian dialect littered with forceful neologisms. The antonym to tight is not ‘loose’ - logic has no place in the coinage of neologisms - but janky, also spelled and pronounced jinky or jainky. But if you dress up the idea in a forbidding vocabulary, full of neologisms and recondite references to philosophy, then you may have a prescription for academic stardom. The terms he used, positive and negative, plus and minus, are still the terms we use today; so are the neologisms he created to describe his findings: battery, charged, neutral, condense, and conductor. Synonyms new word, new expression, new term, new phrase, coinage, newly coined word, made-up word, invented word, invention, nonce word portmanteau word 1.1mass noun The coining or use of new words. 造词；新词的使用 Example sentencesExamples At the risk of coining a fourth type (writers are only allowed one neologism per article) we could say that the global economy (and its attendant pollution) is itself 4th nature. ‘I am not afraid of neologism,’ wrote the fearless Professor Fowler. Like Clark Coolidge, whose verve depends on malapropism, neologism, and ricochet, Roberts bounces back and forth within a multivalent vocabulary. Substituting catachresis for neologism lends the good historian another way of thinking about linguistic terms extralinguistically and the means to treat terms in thought-as if thinking, too, were an unexplored, historical datum. Their attempts to get around these logical points generally result in an orgy of neologism and grammatical originality that gives me eye-ache. Justifying speciesism takes us back to square one, but with an ugly, misleading and tendentious neologism thrown in. No recondite phrase or pleasing neologism, it is a wordless summons like that made by the infant in distress. Derivatives neologist noun Although, thinking about it, I'm sure my vocabulary has been enlarged in previously unexplored directions by the energetic neologists of spam. Example sentencesExamples In 2001 Hebden perfected what neologists might term ‘folktronica’ on Pause, a late summer's melange of delicate found-sound sonics and charmingly recontextualised acoustic melodies and beats. Always the playful neologist (pertussion is his coinage from the technical term for whooping cough, pertussis), Wallace has lately become a professor of literature. So how did 20th century neologists go about creating new words? She calls herself an intactivist, neologist and birthkeeper. neologize verb nɪˈɒlədʒʌɪzniˈɑləˌdʒaɪz [no object] Coin new words or expressions. 新词；新表达法 a resourceful country that can neologize creatively Example sentencesExamples with object he neologized many new words modelled upon Arabic There are words borrowed from Chinese dialect and Malay and some of which are neologised from the vernacular. We have discovered a rich new seam of zeitgeist, and the publishers are neologising all the way to the bank. Apparently, they had no idea that cos was short for because, and typically neologised into cuz in the states. Origin Early 19th century: from French néologisme. Definition of neologism in US English: neologism nounnēˈäləˌjizəmniˈɑləˌdʒɪzəm 1A newly coined word or expression. 新词；新表达法 Example sentencesExamples Because the golden crucible of creative neologisms so often has a surface scum of knee-jerk, cliché-ridden, automatic invention. Chemists are constantly inventing new molecular words, expanding the language - and some of these neologisms are rather witty. The terms he used, positive and negative, plus and minus, are still the terms we use today; so are the neologisms he created to describe his findings: battery, charged, neutral, condense, and conductor. Yet, many neologisms sneak in unnoticed and many exist for some time, only later to attract adverse attention. We've become accustomed to accepting the fact that popular culture comes out of America mostly, and so does this make the United States the source of most neologisms say since the '40s? But if you dress up the idea in a forbidding vocabulary, full of neologisms and recondite references to philosophy, then you may have a prescription for academic stardom. Elevation is lent to his language by archaic and poetic words and an admixture of neologisms, while his extensive use of metaphor more closely resembles poetic than prose usage. He chose antiquated vocabulary, from religious literature and classical poetry, and avoided neologisms. Mr Rowan said neologisms (new words) were often invented by certain groups to make themselves feel exclusive. Politicians invent neologisms and use words in a very imaginative way. The antonym to tight is not ‘loose’ - logic has no place in the coinage of neologisms - but janky, also spelled and pronounced jinky or jainky. I'm sure the Harry's Place commentariat can come up with inventive neologisms to describe political concepts recently arisen… Stylistically, the language was riddled with neologisms and foreign terms, and the composition was muddled by excessive ornaments. His work routinely exhibits a Joycean verbal playfulness and exuberance, and is littered with inventive neologisms and mixed metaphors. Vauban never spared himself during the process, and was always on hand, muttering away in a Burgundian dialect littered with forceful neologisms. Radner writes long, convoluted sentences and regularly coins neologisms; he also employs words without much sensitivity to the alternative associations that they are likely to breed in the minds of the reader. Like many neologisms (new words), ‘dis’ is formed by chopping the front off a longer word. You will appreciate that I spend much of my time reading the newspapers in order to turn up neologisms and other interesting terms. I was imagining a full hybridized America in the 21st century and trying to coin all these neologisms to explain what America would look like. I wouldn't call them neologisms because a neologism is a new word that has immediate definition or sense. Synonyms new word, new expression, new term, new phrase, coinage, newly coined word, made-up word, invented word, invention, nonce word 1.1 The coining or use of new words. 造词；新词的使用 Example sentencesExamples Substituting catachresis for neologism lends the good historian another way of thinking about linguistic terms extralinguistically and the means to treat terms in thought-as if thinking, too, were an unexplored, historical datum. Justifying speciesism takes us back to square one, but with an ugly, misleading and tendentious neologism thrown in. Like Clark Coolidge, whose verve depends on malapropism, neologism, and ricochet, Roberts bounces back and forth within a multivalent vocabulary. ‘I am not afraid of neologism,’ wrote the fearless Professor Fowler. Their attempts to get around these logical points generally result in an orgy of neologism and grammatical originality that gives me eye-ache. No recondite phrase or pleasing neologism, it is a wordless summons like that made by the infant in distress. At the risk of coining a fourth type (writers are only allowed one neologism per article) we could say that the global economy (and its attendant pollution) is itself 4th nature. Origin Early 19th century: from French néologisme.
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