Buzzword

A buzzword (also known as a fashion word) is an idiom, often a neologism, commonly used in technical, administrative, and sometimes political environments. Buzzwords appear ubiquitously but their actual meanings often remain unclear.

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Buzzwords are typically intended to create the impression of knowledge for a wide audience. They tend to be non-controversial and universal.

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Buzzwords differ from jargon in that they have the function of impressing or of obscuring meaning, while jargon (ideally) has a well-defined technical meaning, if only to specialists. However, the hype surrounding new technologies often turns technical terms into buzzwords (see Buzzword compliant).

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A buzzword may or may not appear in a dictionary, and if it does, its meaning as a buzzword may not match the conventional definition.

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Idiom: An idiom is an expression whose meaning is not compositional—that is, whose meaning does not follow from the meaning of the individual words of which it is composed. For example, the English phrase to kick the bucket means to die. A listener knowing the meaning of kick and bucket will not ther...

Neologism: :For the Wikipedia guideline, see...

Jargon: :For the glossary of hacker slang, see Jargon File....

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