neologism

How To Use neologism In A Sentence

• ‘I am not afraid of neologism,’ wrote the fearless Professor Fowler.
• Yet today the portmanteau is probably the most fertile vehicle for neologisms. Times, Sunday Times
• The newspaper used the neologism "dinks", Double Income No Kids.
• It’s now almost as outdated in the neologism dodge as the suffixes -arama and -aholic. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
• He suggests that Unitarian Universalism is not so much afflicted with its own orthodoxy or even "orthopraxy" a favorite neologism among seminarians, but that it is tilting heavily toward "orthopatheia", a fixation on feeling the right things. Philocrites: August 2003 Archives
• I don't think these neologisms worth passing on to beginners.
• 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.
• Politicians invent neologisms and use words in a very imaginative way.
• His translation of ‘Espergesia’ as ‘Epexegesis’ captures the power of this impossible word which some interpreters have considered to be a neologism and others an elusive archaism.
• Most languages have some self-critical locution, usually a wordplay or neologism, to indicate typical national defects.