verb
- to create or use a new word or expression; to coin a neologism
- to give a new meaning to an existing word
Usage: British spelling; American spelling is 'neologize'; often used in linguistics and language studies
Usage: less common usage
Examples
- The tech industry continues to neologise as new technologies emerge.
- Linguists study how people neologise in response to cultural changes.
- Social media has encouraged users to neologise creative slang terms.
- The author tends to neologise words to express abstract concepts.
- Young speakers often neologise by blending existing words together.
- During the pandemic, many organizations had to neologise terms related to remote work.