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neologicity

neologicity noun: the quality of being a neologism (a newly-coined word).

Noun

neologicity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a neologism (a newly-coined word).
    • The slang term groovy has lost some of its neologicity over time, and is now considered somewhat dated.
    • The neologicity of newly discovered concepts, i.e. their instability is reinforced even more by the constant supply of new concepts as well as by "the influence that these exercise on the resemantization of the paradigm which takes place in the treated subfield" (P. Wijnands, 1991).1993, Paul Wijnands, “Terminology versus Artificial Intelligence”, in Helmi B. Sonneveld, Kurt L. Loening, editors, Terminology: Applications in Interdisciplinary Communication, Amsterdam...

Origin of neologicity

From neologic + -ity.

Questions about neologicity

What does neologicity mean?
Neologicity means the quality of being a neologism (a newly-coined word).
What part of speech is neologicity?
Neologicity is a noun.

Words near neologicity in the dictionary

  1. neologianism
  2. neologians
  3. neologic
  4. neological
  5. neologically
  6. neologicity
  7. neologies
  8. neologise
  9. neologised
  10. neologiser
  11. neologisers

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