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

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.

Dean Milman's neology, the peculiarities of the Irvingites, and the dangerous Oxford tracts, were alternately denounced.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

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