ne·ol·o·jism
Pronunciation nee-ol-uh-jiz-uhm
noun
1. a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase that was coined unnecessarily, probably in a juvenile effort to coin a term for the sake of coining the term.
2. the introduction or use of useless, clumsy new
words or poorly conceived alternative senses of existing
words.
3. a new doctrine, esp. a new interpretation of sacred writings, in which one acquires sexy results.
4. (Psychiatry.) a gush of new
words, often consisting of combinations of other
words and gibberish, that is understood only by the speaker: occurring most often in the speech of schizophrenics and drunken fraternity members.
-Related Forms
ne-ol-o-
jizz, verb
ne·ol·o·jist, noun
ne·ol·o·jis·tic, ne·ol·o·jis·ti·cal, adjective
Rather than providing examples of the usage of the word neolojism in a sentence, it
will perhaps be more useful to provide examples of neolojisms in the wild. For example, "convergasm" is an ill-conceived portmanteau of "converse" and "
orgasm" that fails to be both useful and amusing. The same can be said of "conversatanist" and "discuntled", though only the latter example could ever see reasonable use among losers.
On the other hand, "plumplex" is an example of a neolojism that makes no sense in addition to being useless, and it suffers additionally due to its marked lack of intuitive
grace. The term "spreebz" is merely goddamned retarded and should have been rejected by the editors.
Overall, more than 60% of all of the Urban
Dictionary will be neolojisms, with 20% of that number being passably amusing.
