paleonymies

Noun

paleonymy (countable and uncountable, plural paleonymies)

1. The use of a preexisting word in a new context.
   • Paleonymy stands in Takeuchi's text as a device to think such older words or concepts anew, therebv allowing them to effectively intervene in critical discourse.2005, Yoshimi Takeuchi, Richard Calichman, What is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi, →ISBN, page 8
2. The connotations that a word carries due to its historical meaning or meanings.
   • I use the word "humanities," as the expression "English department," with a keen sense of the value of paleonymy.1992, James A. Berlin, Michael Vivion, Cultural Studies in the English Classroom, page 43