How To Use Neologism In A Sentence
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‘I am not afraid of neologism,’ wrote the fearless Professor Fowler.
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Yet today the portmanteau is probably the most fertile vehicle for neologisms.
Times, Sunday Times
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The newspaper used the neologism "dinks", Double Income No Kids.
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It’s now almost as outdated in the neologism dodge as the suffixes -arama and -aholic.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
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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
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I don't think these neologisms worth passing on to beginners.
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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.
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Politicians invent neologisms and use words in a very imaginative way.
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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.
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Most languages have some self-critical locution, usually a wordplay or neologism, to indicate typical national defects.
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The word thus invented is both a neologism and a cliché.
Times, Sunday Times
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The word thus invented is both a neologism and a cliché.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't think these neologisms worth passing on to beginners.
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It’s now almost as outdated in the neologism dodge as the suffixes -arama and -aholic.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
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I wish that I had accepted your suggestion to substitute in my script an explanatory phrase for the neologism "preprepared," and if it had crossed your minds or had dawned on mine that the word could be thought of as implying that I had reflected even remotely on the character of Bernard Knox, I should have written instead what I now hasten to send to you.
Crusty Christopher
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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.
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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.
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You will appreciate that I spend much of my time reading the newspapers in order to turn up neologisms and other interesting terms.
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Vauban never spared himself during the process, and was always on hand, muttering away in a Burgundian dialect littered with forceful neologisms.
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Last month Trevor posted a Wordie list, subtitled Econorrhea, of neologisms and portmanteaux having to do with the economic implosion, which he has now worked into a Jabberwocky parody* on Recessionwire — which is itself compiling the beginnings of what could be something fun: a recession lexicon.
Beware the Econorrhea
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Stylistically, the language was riddled with neologisms and foreign terms, and the composition was muddled by excessive ornaments.
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Mr Rowan said neologisms (new words) were often invented by certain groups to make themselves feel exclusive.
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I'm sure the Harry's Place commentariat can come up with inventive neologisms to describe political concepts recently arisen…
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And give the word neologism to our language, as a root, and it should give us its fellow substantives, neology, neologist, neologization; its adjectives, neologous, neological, neologistical; its verb, neologize; and adverb neologically.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
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And although Sarah Churchwell's assertion (A neologism thang, innit, 10 May) that the -ize spelling is "much-maligned (in Britain)" may be true in some quarters, it isn't here at Oxford, where -ize remains, as it always has been, the preferred form.
Letters: The 'ize' have it
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Yet today the portmanteau is probably the most fertile vehicle for neologisms.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is how the Senate Bar, a Topeka saloon favored by state officials, fell to a Nation attack or, using another of her neologisms, a “hatchetation”: “I ran behind the bar,” she wrote, smashed the mirror and all the bottles under it; picked up the cash register, threw it down; then broke the faucets of the refrigerator, opened the door and cut the rubber tubes that conducted the beer.
LAST CALL
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I don't think these neologisms worth passing on to beginners.
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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.
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The neologism tropicopolitan is ‘a name for the colonized subject who exists both as fictive construct of colonial tropology and actual resident of tropical space, object of representation and agent of resistance’.
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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.
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Their attempts to get around these logical points generally result in an orgy of neologism and grammatical originality that gives me eye-ache.
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You will appreciate that I spend much of my time reading the newspapers in order to turn up neologisms and other interesting terms.
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Chemists are constantly inventing new molecular words, expanding the language - and some of these neologisms are rather witty.
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The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
Shelfari:
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Gadamer could be interesting here, as could a closer reading of Caillois or Huizinga who coins the neologism "ludic", which unfortunately isn't present in the English translation.
Game as Cultural Form, Play as Disposition
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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.
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Carefully feeling his way through the scraps, he came upon what he’d been looking for: the stritch (a neologism created by Kirk for the relatively rare Buescher alto sax) and the manzello (another term invented by Kirk), a saxello (B-flat soprano sax) which he then modified by enlarging the bell and changing the mouthpiece so he could fit all three in his mouth.
Rahsaan as Orpheus
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Other Browne's neologisms which spring immediately to mind include - 'electrical' 'electricity' 'hallucination' 'caricature' 'pathology' 'ambidextrous' 'antediluvian' 'retromingent' 'callyphygae' , 'gymnastically' and many, many others.
Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms
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The stark drama of the days and weeks that followed goudo goudo the neologism whose vocalization, Haitians say, most closely resembles the sound of those frightening moments when the earth shifted is dramatically captured in his personal account of rushing to the country to join Haitian and international medical colleagues in treating earthquake victims.
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It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism.
Gershon Hepner: William Safire
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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.
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It was a neat neologism that hinted at both intent and maddening randomness: something banal had been made into a weapon, and like a handgun or a hunting knife, it could accidentally kill you.
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Well, language is unsisting (never resting) so why not resurrect some old neologisms?
Times, Sunday Times
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Like Clark Coolidge, whose verve depends on malapropism, neologism, and ricochet, Roberts bounces back and forth within a multivalent vocabulary.
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Would UK speakers think this a neologism, an example of aphesis and/or a local eccentricity?
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His work routinely exhibits a Joycean verbal playfulness and exuberance, and is littered with inventive neologisms and mixed metaphors.
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Everyone was kind of reeling at the neologism but for me it sounded neat.
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Other Browne's neologisms which spring immediately to mind include - 'electrical' 'electricity' 'hallucination' 'caricature' 'pathology' 'ambidextrous' 'antediluvian' 'retromingent' 'callyphygae' , 'gymnastically' and many, many others.
Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms
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It was a smart neologism, I suppose, even if a bit infelicitous.
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It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism.
Gershon Hepner: William Safire
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When neologisms with the word "phobia" are formed, this requirement should be considered.
Jalees Rehman, M.D.: 'Islamophobia' Is Not A Phobia
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Steve Rubel notes that there's a debate at the online encyclopedia Wikipedia about a new listing for the word folksonomy, which it defines as "a neologism for a practice ... iPod
Tech Beat - BusinessWeek
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No recondite phrase or pleasing neologism, it is a wordless summons like that made by the infant in distress.
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He regarded Webster's dictionary as a purveyor of corrupting neologisms like "feedback," a word he disliked.
The Man Who Taught Us to See
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I don't think these neologisms worth passing on to beginners.
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And although Sarah Churchwell's assertion (A neologism thang, innit, 10 May) that the -ize spelling is "much-maligned (in Britain)" may be true in some quarters, it isn't here at Oxford, where -ize remains, as it always has been, the preferred form.
Letters: The 'ize' have it
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Who is there to restrain this kudzulike growth of stupid neologisms like "eggcorn"?
"She seems like a real fighter, someone who would stick it to the lobbyist and special-interest groups that have run ramped in Washington."
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Yet today the portmanteau is probably the most fertile vehicle for neologisms.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because the golden crucible of creative neologisms so often has a surface scum of knee-jerk, cliché-ridden, automatic invention.
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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.
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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?
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Yet, many neologisms sneak in unnoticed and many exist for some time, only later to attract adverse attention.
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Lewis Carroll used the term portmanteau to describe a neologism with “two meanings packed up into one word”; his nonsense verse Jabberwocky (pictured) is full of them.
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Mr Edwards may also be interested to know that, far from being an American neologism coined by Professor Churchwell, hierarchize has been with us for over 100 years at least since its use in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1884.
Letters: The 'ize' have it
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And give the word neologism to our language, as a root, and it should give us it's fellow substantives, neology, neologist, neologisation; it's adjectives neologous, neological, neologistical, it's verb neologise, and adverb neologically.
Letters
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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
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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.
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This stance can be better described by the neologism apatheism.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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The word thus invented is both a neologism and a cliché.
Times, Sunday Times
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And, I give my neologism that's pretentious for gism to you:
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Like many neologisms (new words), ‘dis’ is formed by chopping the front off a longer word.
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Homeric glosses, along with scholarly neologisms and obscure periphrases, are prominent in his poetry.
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One neologism for this model is 'freemium'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Decode the neologisms and euphemisms and you gain a rare insight into the strategists' true intentions.
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I don't think these neologisms worth passing on to beginners.
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The newspaper used the neologism "dinks", Double Income No Kids.
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This stance can be better described by the neologism '' apatheism ''.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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Neologism and neologized are both correct, but both need a certain consensus before being eligible.
Daring Fireball
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While most people accept that language will change with use and time, Sarah Churchwell appears to justify the increasing Americanisation of British English A neologism thang, innit, 10 May.
Letters: Mind your English language
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In the decades since the Blitz, the term "blitz" and "blitzkrieg" have become neologisms, commonly used in a number of contexts, from advertising to law enforcement operations to sports, to describe a combination of overwhelming force and speed.
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I wouldn't call them neologisms because a neologism is a new word that has immediate definition or sense.
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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.
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He chose antiquated vocabulary, from religious literature and classical poetry, and avoided neologisms.
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Justifying speciesism takes us back to square one, but with an ugly, misleading and tendentious neologism thrown in.
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The Telegraph reports on the publication of a new dictionary of Italian neologisms (2006 parole nuove by Valeria Della Valle and Giovanni Adamo), which includes dozens of coinages based on the names of political leaders.
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In 2008 he told the US magazine Out that it was possible to discuss "sexuality without using labels", and has not previously identified a term to use when describing his sexual preference, leading some commentators to coin neologisms such as 'ambisexual' and 'gaybe'.
PinkNews.co.uk
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The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
Shelfari:
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No recondite phrase or pleasing neologism, it is a wordless summons like that made by the infant in distress.
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And give the word neologism to our language, as a root, and it should give us its fellow substantives, neology, neologist, neologization; its adjectives, neologous, neological, neologistical; its verb, neologize; and adverb neologically.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
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Speckter called his invention the "interrobang," a neologism that combines "interrogation" with "bang" (printer-speak for the exclamation mark).
Undefined
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Worse yet, the clumsy neologism seems to have replaced the perfectly acceptable words "befriended" and "befriending.
David Finkle: To "Friend" or "Defriend"? That is the Question
