neology

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Some have more to do with neology than psychology.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

This offshoot of German neology, issuing from the same parent stock with Socinianism, finds a congenial soil in a Unitarian community.

From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.

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

Neolog′ic, -al, pertaining to neology: using new words.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various