paleologism

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Antonyms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.4 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative forms

• palaeologism

[edit] Etymology

Derived from Greek paleós, meaning "old", and patterned after “‘neologism’”.

[edit] Noun

paleologism (plural paleologisms)

1. A word or phrase that was coined in the distant past, often now obscure and perhaps having a definition or implication different from that of a more recent usage.
   • 1964, Charles William Wahl, New Dimensions in Psychosomatic Medicine [1], page 41:

   Another is the paleologism of pars pro toto in which a part of an organ or function can symbolize the whole organ or concept; eg, the stomach may be the locus of difficulty with a patient with a history of frustrated dependency needs because of its association with the process of being fed and loved by the mother.

   • 1995, John Llewelyn, Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics [2], ISBN 0415107296, page 163:

   Levinas seems to be offering new words or newly burnished words for old, those apparent semantic neologisms are more like pre-semantic paleologisms.

   • 2006, Philippe Roger as translated by Sharon Bowman, The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism [3], ISBN 0226723682, page 252:

   The word trust is in no way a neologism. On the contrary, it is a kind of paleologism, a primitive signifier, "a word from a barbarian time."

[edit] Antonyms

• neologism

[edit] Related terms

• paleologist

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aegillmoops
• megalopolis, Megalopolis