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Neology 

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It is a noun with at last four meanings:
1 The study or art of creating new words.
2 The act of introducing a new word into a language.
3 The use of an existing word in a new way.
4 The holding of novel or rational religious views. (Although this definition is now largely obsolete.)
1 Neology is a hobby of mine.
2 I’ve just had a new word accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary. Neology!
3 Urban Dictionary is a catalyst for neology
4 Believing that we are all just the dream of a sleeping cat is not necessarily a neology.
Neology by AKACroatalin April 20, 2015
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Neology 

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(noun) The field of study about new things.
“Neology is the one of the newest scientific fields.”
Neology by MaybeARealWord March 30, 2021

Neologically 

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An adverb meaning of, from or related to newly created words. It stems from Neology which in turn comes from the French ‘neologisme’ meaning a newly created word.
Urban Dictionary is a nuclear reactor, neologically speaking.
Neologically by AKACroatalin April 21, 2015

neologism 

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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 

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

Neologorrhea 

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The inability to stop making up neologisms, that is, new words.
After five hours of making up words like Yoloc and Sethronull, he had to admit he had neologorrhea and took a Xanex.
Neologorrhea by chaosmotic May 9, 2019

Neologian 

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(noun)
A neologian is a person who coins, creates, or crafts new words.

A neologian is a creator of neologisms (i.e. new words).

When existing words are insufficient to the task of adequately expressing an idea or require clumsy combinations of words, a neologian will craft a new or replacement word, most often by relying on verbal elements in pre-existing words or word-fragments, whether written or aural elements.
Tertullian was a neologian of the early Latin-speaking Christian church who coined many new words, including the very influential "trinitas" (transliterated into English as "Trinity").

Urban Dictionary is a vast resource of neologisms (new words) produced by countless neologians.

Stephen Colbert is a contemporary and renown neologian, famous for his many neologisms, for example, "truthiness."

Neologian-PJG is the neologian responsible for the neologism "neologian" as an entry in Urban Dictionary.
Neologian by Neologian-PJG November 29, 2011
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