neologicity

English

Etymology

From neologic +‎ -ity.

Noun

neologicity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being a neologism (a newly-coined word).

   The slang term groovy has lost some of its neologicity over time, and is now considered somewhat dated.

   • 1993, Paul Wijnands, “Terminology versus Artificial Intelligence”, in Helmi B. Sonneveld, Kurt L. Loening, editors, Terminology: Applications in Interdisciplinary Communication, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, P.A.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 172:

     The neologicity of newly discovered concepts, i.e. their instability is reinforced even more by the constant supply of new concepts as well as by "the influence that these exercise on the resemantization of the paradigm which takes place in the treated subfield" (P. Wijnands, 1991).

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