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neologism
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neologism /ne·ol·o·gism/ (ne-ol´ah-jizm) a newly coined word; in psychiatry, a new word whose meaning may be known only to the patient using it.
ne·ol·o·gism (n-l-jzm)
n.
A meaningless word used by a psychotic.
neologism
[nē·ol′əjiz′əm]
Etymology: Gk, neos + logos, word
1 a word or term newly coined or used with a new meaning.
2 (in psychiatry) a word coined by a psychotic or delirious patient that is meaningful only to the patient.
neologism [ne-ol´o-jizm]
a newly coined word; in psychiatry, a word whose meaning may be known only to the patient using it; see also word salad.
neologism
Neurology/psychiatry A word created by a Pt with a mental disorder or dementia, which includes new usages for standard words and ad hoc substitutes for names forgotten by a Pt; neologisms are created by Pts with schizophrenia and organic mental disorders
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The synthetic nuvat-quotative suggested as a neologist form instead of the latter never became rooted in literary language and no instances of the nuvat-form were found in the analysed material.
Indirectal in literary Estonian by Sepper, Maria-Maren / Trames
20) Thus, quoting in abschied final words from Herbert's Temple in his penultimate line, the neologist Jesuit may seem to get scot-free of the obsolete `Temple' of former existence, in comfortable contrast to the real `dauphin' of the Terror, who, after damning his mother to the guillotine by attesting to a sexual libel against her, was brutalized to death within the Temple prison.
Faithful to the Greek?: Swinburnian Patterning (Hopkinsian Dapple) by Hardman, Malcolm / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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