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neologism|niːˈɒlədʒɪz(ə)m|
[ad. F. néologisme (1735): see neology and -ism.]
1. a. The use of, or the practice of using, new words; innovation in language.
1800W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. X. 318 Quaintness, the unavoidable companion of neologism, is..hostile to grace. 1858De Quincey Language Wks. IX. 76 Neologism, in revolutionary times, is not an infirmity of caprice. 1895Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. Ser. ii. 34 Not..alarmed at an appearance of neologism now and then.
b. A new word or expression.
1803Edin. Rev. II. 104 Scotticisms, neologisms..dance through each page. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 361 Since that day neologisms have fertilised the barrenness of our Saxon. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. ii. 52 The class which, to use a modern neologism, ‘formulates’ the ideas [etc.].
c. Psychol. An invented or concocted word or word-sound without recognizable meaning, freq. interpolated in otherwise correct sentences, and used by persons in a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders.
1905A. J. Rosanoff tr. Rogues de Fursac's Man. Psychiatry ii. 46 Neologisms the meaning of which may remain absolutely enigmatical to the patient himself. Ibid. viii. 200 Neologisms are frequent in the period of dementia. 1906J. H. Macdonald tr. Bianchi's Textbk. Psychiatry iii. xiii. 680 In the typical form [of mania]..neologisms and symbols are found in great number. 1932Cannon & Hayes Princ. & Pract. of Psychiatry 378 The verbal repetition of these ‘new’ words—neologisms or senseless words invented by himself. 1960R. F. C. Hull tr. Jung's Coll. Wks. III. i. 25 Word-formations, which are so bizarre that they immediately bring to mind the neologisms of dementia praecox. 1969W. Mayer-Gross et al. Clin. Psychiatry (ed. 3) v. 286 Other patients refer the origin of neologisms to hallucinatory experiences.
2. Tendency to, adoption of, novel (rationalistic) views in theology or matters of religion.
1827Eclectic Rev. July 15 Neologism, a system which is not confined to Germany, but has been zealously fostered in other countries. 1851Bp. Wilberforce Let. in Life (1881) II. iii. 108, I have seen for twenty-six years that Neologism was the peril which was before the English Church. 1865Guardian 19 Apr. 401/2 However despicable..the temper of modern neologism may be.
Hence neoloˈgismal a.
1836New Monthly Mag. XLVIII. 455 The neologismal appellatives, ‘tiger’, and ‘tigerism’. |