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neologism 

Itself an invented word used exclusively pejoratively to dismiss newly coined words. Usually used to express distaste for words inconvenient to one's ideology.
Pederasts, a more perverse subtype of faggots, declare moralphobia a neologism.
neologism by Tokenizing Words January 8, 2008

neologism 

Words wikipedia, itself a neologism, finds inconvenient.
Wikipedia, itself a neologism, discourages the use of neologisms.
neologism by Tokenizing Words January 8, 2008

Urban Dictionary neologism

An Urban Dictionary neologism is a made-up word to get listed an item in the Urban Dictionary.
Jack is a source off Urban Dictionary neologisms so that he can sound erudite; but he sounds only faux erudite at best.

Neologism 

Basically, a new word that comes into a language through creatively using that language. Borrowed words from other languages and dialects are not neologisms.
Ebonics: Ebony Phonics

Notice both ebony and phonics are 'english' words, these two words were creatively used to create a new english word.
Neologism by Dwayne December 4, 2003

neologism 

The promotion of which is the sole purpose of urbandictionary's existence.
Urbandictionary is a collection of neologisms.
neologism by DrIdiot January 13, 2006

Neologism 

A neologism (from Greek neo = "new" + logos = "word") is a word that, devised relatively recently in a specific time period, has not been accepted into a mainstream language. By definition, neologisms are "new", and as such are often directly attributable to a specific individual, publication, period, or event. The term "neologism" was coined in 1803.1
In psychiatry, the term neologism is used to describe the use of words that only have meaning to the person who uses them, independent of their common meaning. This is considered normal in children, but a symptom of thought disorder (indicative of a psychotic mental illness, such as schizophrenia) in adults.

"Yesterday's neologisms, like yesterday's jargon, are often today's essential vocabulary."
– Academic Instincts, 20014
Neologism by plantmilkweedseeds December 25, 2008