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n. - The act of inventing a word or phrase; A newly invented word or phrase.

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  • For all that your neologism is pungent and to the point.
  • Recent Links Tagged With "neologism" - JabberTags on October 20th, 2008 at 1: 34 pm:
  • Kendrick has a lengthy discussion of "pornography" as a nineteenth-century neologism from the Greek: "writing by or about whores."
  • One wonders how long this freshly-coined neologism will survive.
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