neology

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Some have more to do with neology than psychology.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Mr. Milburn, in one of his chapters, gives an account of his passage through what he is pleased to call neology and rationalism.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 by Various

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