different between paleologism vs neologism

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

For the Wiktionary policy, see Wiktionary:Neologisms

English

Etymology

From French néologisme, from Ancient Greek ???? (néos, “new”) + ????? (lógos, “word”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni???l?d??z?m/

Noun

neologism (countable and uncountable, plural neologisms)

1. (linguistics, lexicography, countable) A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase.

   Synonym: coinage

2. (linguistics, uncountable) The act or instance of coining, or uttering a new word.
3. (psychiatry) The newly coined, meaningless words or phrases of someone with a psychosis, usually schizophrenia.
4. The introduction of new doctrine, for example in theology.

Usage notes

• There is no precise moment when a word stops being "new", but 15–20 years is a common cutoff (corresponding to one generation growing up potentially familiar with the word, depending on how common it is). Acceptance of a word as valid by dictionaries or by a significant portion of the population are sometimes mentioned as additional conditions. Some neologisms become widespread and standard (such as new chemical element names), others remain rare or slangy. (Distinguish from protologisms, coinages which have not become common.)

Antonyms

• paleologism

Derived terms

• diffused neologism
• neologistic
• stable neologism

Related terms

• neologize
• neologizer
• neology

Translations

See also

• protologism
• vogue words
• Category:English neologisms

References

• The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style. Bryan A. Garner. Oxford University Press, 2000. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 21 June 2006
• The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Anagrams

• mooseling

Romanian

Etymology

From French néologisme

Noun

neologism n (plural neologisme)

1. neologism

Declension