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pseudoneologisms

pseudoneologisms is the plural of pseudoneologism.

Meaning of pseudoneologism

Noun

pseudoneologism (plural pseudoneologisms)

  1. A word or expression that appears to be a neologism, but is actually either not genuinely new or is a pseudoform derived from existing linguistic elements.
    • A veritable lexicon of pseudoneologisms serves as the most subtle currency of this "givenness of the wrong word" in Beckett's prose. Throughout the work, arcane diction such as "dimmen," "strangury," "collapsion," "scrute" abounds. By their juxtaposition with perfectly colloquial idioms, these...2003, Alan Singer, Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos, University Park, P.A.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, page 94

Questions about pseudoneologisms

What is pseudoneologisms the plural of?
Pseudoneologisms is the plural of pseudoneologism.

Words near pseudoneologisms in the dictionary

  1. pseudoneck
  2. pseudonecks
  3. pseudonegative
  4. pseudoneglect
  5. pseudoneologism
  6. pseudoneologisms
  7. pseudoneonatal
  8. pseudoneuritic
  9. pseudoneuritis
  10. pseudoneurological
  11. pseudoneuropterous

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