neologism

  1. Noun.  (linguistics) A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase.
  2. Noun.  (linguistics) (uncountable) The act or instance of coining, or uttering a new word.
  3. Noun.  (linguistics) The newly coined, meaningless words or phrases of someone with a psychosis, usually schizophrenia.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.