Definition of "neologism" []

• A new word, expression, or usage. (noun)
• The creation or use of new words or senses. (noun)
• Psychology The invention of new words regarded as a symptom of certain psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia. (noun)
• Psychology A word so invented. (noun)
• Theology A new doctrine or a new interpretation of scripture. (noun)

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• "Mia_Nodecker: Sanotorun... the neologism neologism |nä�ë�ã¤lé�ë�jizé�m| noun a newly coined"
• "For all that your neologism is pungent and to the point."
• "Whereas a neologism is normally understood to be a new word formed consciously, by a subjectivity in possession of itself and its language, in Balfour's essay subjecticity falls into play possibly by accident: "It could have been a typo, in this word that is not exactly a word: subjecticity.""