Synonyms of coinage

coinage

noun

ˈkȯi-nij 

as in invention

something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination

this latest coinage from the minds who gave us the MP3 player

Synonyms & Similar Words

• invention
• innovation
• creation
• product
• contrivance
• concoction
• conception
• design
• device
• wrinkle
• work
• brainchild
• novelty
• gadget
• origination
• contraption
• gizmo
• fantasy
• dream
• vision
• picture
• imagining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• copy
• reproduction
• imitation
• duplication
• duplicate
• replication
• facsimile
• clone
• replica
• carbon copy
• reduplication
• dupe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of coinage

The author, a professor named Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, proved to have a knack not just for provocative legal essays but for coinages, too. — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

People have been called pedants since the early modern period—pedante is a fifteenth-century Italian coinage for a professional teacher of Latin literature and rhetoric—but have been acting pedantically for millennia. — Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026

Propagandi, in other words, isn’t just a clever coinage. — Tim Requarth, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2026

Before the mid-1960s, the United States Mint used silver in everyday coinage. — Nick Perry, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2026