different between obscured vs paleologism

English

Pronunciation

Verb

obscured

1. simple past tense and past participle of obscure

Adjective

obscured (comparative more obscured, superlative most obscured)

1. Made hidden, less visible, or dark.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hidden

Anagrams

• Dobrescu

English

Alternative forms

• palaeologism, palæologism

Etymology

paleo- +? -logism, from Ancient Greek: ??????? (palaiós, “old”) in combination with ????? (lógos, “word”).

Noun

paleologism (plural paleologisms)

1. A word or phrase that was coined in the distant past, often now obscured, or if recently used: possibly having a definition or implication different from that of any earlier usage.
   • 1964, Charles William Wahl, New Dimensions in Psychosomatic Medicine [1], page 41:

     Another is the paleologism of pars pro toto in which a part of an organ or function can symbolize the whole organ or concept; eg, the stomach may be the locus of difficulty with a patient with a history of frustrated dependency needs because of its association with the process of being fed and loved by the mother.

   • 1995, John Llewelyn, Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics [2], ?ISBN, page 163:

     Levinas seems to be offering new words or newly burnished words for old, those apparent semantic neologisms are more like pre-semantic paleologisms.

   • 2006, Philippe Roger as translated by Sharon Bowman, The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism [3], ?ISBN, page 252:

     The word trust is in no way a neologism. On the contrary, it is a kind of paleologism, a primitive signifier, "a word from a barbarian time."

2. An obsolete term.

Antonyms

• neologism

Related terms

• paleologist

Translations

Anagrams

• Megalopolis, megalopolis