Neologism

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Types of neologism

• Scientific — words or phrases created to describe new scientific discoveries or inventions. Examples:
• beetle bank (early 1990s)
• black hole (1968)
• laser (1960)
• prion
• quark (1964)
• radar (1941)
• posterized
• Science fiction concepts created to describe new, futuristic ideas. Examples:
• Ringworld (1971)
• Dyson Sphere (circa 1960)
• Political — words or phrases created to make some kind of political or rhetorical point, sometimes perhaps with an eye to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Example:
• dog-whistle politics (1990)
• meritocracy (1958)
• political correctness (1990)
• sie and hir (neologisms)
• homophobia (1969)
• genocide
• Some political neologisms, however, are intended to convey a negative point of view. Example:
• Pop-culture — words or phrases evolved from mass media content or used to describe popular culture phenomena (these may be considered a subsection of slang). Examples:
• jumping the shark
• Chuck Cunningham syndrome
• Keyshawning
• Baldwin (a good-looking man, such as one of the Baldwin family of actors)
• Scooby Gang (a group which humorously resembles the teens on the cartoon Scooby-Doo)
• From "D'Oh" to "Scotchtoberfest" - many neologisms from The Simpsons are now used in real life. For a long list see Made-up words in The Simpsons
• sex-it-up a recently used phrase describing the memo that was said to be the cause of the Iraq invasion.
• Imported — words or phrases originating in another language. Typically they are used to express ideas that have no equivalent term in the native language. (See loanword.) Examples:
• potato (1565)
• zen (1727)
• ao dai (1960s)
• Vietcong (1960s)
• Tet (1968)
• anime (1988)
• détente (1960s)
• manga
• Trademarks are often neologisms to ensure they are distinguished from other brands. If legal trademark protection is lost, the neologism may enter the language as a genericized trademark. Example: Laundromat
• Nonce words — words coined and used only for a particular occasion, usually for a special literary effect.
• Inverted — words that are derived from spelling (and pronouncing) a standard word backwards. Example:
• Paleologism - a word that is alleged to be a neologism but turns out to be a long-used (if obscure) word. Used ironically.