neologistic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to, involving, or characterized by newly coined words, phrases, or meanings

   Dr. Chasuble calls the coinage womanthrope too neologistic a phrase for him.

Formed from neologism + -istic. Neologism came through French neologisme from Greek neos ('new') + logos ('word, speech') + -ism. Neologistic therefore describes language that creates or makes conspicuous use of new expressions.

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