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Neology
noun
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Noun
- 1 The study or art of neologizing (creating new words). countable, uncountable
"The word burned through the thin, dry-timbered wall of political neology in 1984, as Senator John Glenn’s campaign manager in South Carolina, John Lawson, told the A.P. that Glenn’s campaign “considered six Deep South states to be the crucial states for Glenn — the fire wall, if you will, between Mondale and the nomination.”"
- 2 the act of inventing a word or phrase wordnet
- 3 A reformist school of 18th- and 19th-century Christian theology influenced by doctrinal rationalism and the methods of historical criticism. countable, historical, uncountable
"What else can be the tendency of such miserably gratuitous assertions, but to plant the pernicious germs of Continental and Anglican neology and rationalism in the breasts of fledgling “ministers” of the Church?"
- 4 a newly invented word or phrase wordnet
Etymology
From neo- + -logy. In the theological sense, originally implying its proponents were innovators departing from religious tradition.
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