neologist
- noun
- /niˈɑlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
:
neólogo
- A famous neologist introduced the term 'selfie' to describe self-taken photographs.
Examples
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Where would neologists be without the old favorites of politics and popular culture?
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Words like blog and you know, all the neologists of the Internet world.
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That's if if that's a neologist that I I coin here now a kind of Cosmo book, the book in the shape of a cosmos.
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The conference featured a neologist who explained how new words are formed in modern languages.
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As a neologist, she enjoyed inventing unique terms for emerging technologies.
Synonyms
A person who makes new words and phrases
How Inventive
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
neologist = neologism (transparent) = neo + log + ist
The relation to 'neologism' ('new word') plus the agentive suffix '-ist' yields the clear meaning 'a person who creates new words'.
Etymology
Neologist comes from Greek parts neo- meaning 'new', logos meaning 'word', and the ending -ist meaning a person, so a neologist is someone who makes or coins 'new words'.
