neology

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Some have more to do with neology than psychology.

From Time Magazine Archive

The whiteness and crystalline form of saltpetre presented a sufficient analogy to attach to it a similar name, neology being in those days not quite so common or so easy as at present.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

But even the dictionary is not large enough for him, and he extends it this way and that, his daring neology creating consternation among the critic flies and other ephemera.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper

At length they were so successful in their neology, that with great difficulty they understood one another.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

The same progress which leads to farther extensions of ideas will still extend the vocabulary; and our neology must and will keep pace with the advancement of our knowledge.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel