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neologism

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of neologism

a new word or expression or a new meaning of a word

scientific neologisms

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of neologism

coinage, modernism

language, lingo, lexicon, mother tongue, speech, tongue, vocabulary

argot, cant, colloquial, dialect, idiolect, idiom, jargon, parlance, patois, patter, pidgin, slang, slanguage, vernacular

colloquialism, localism, provincialism, regionalism, shibboleth, vernacularism

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