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What does neologism mean?

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Noun
  1. (linguistics) A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase.
  2. (linguistics) The act or instance of coining, or uttering a new word.
  3. (psychiatry) The newly coined, meaningless words or phrases of someone with a psychosis, usually schizophrenia.
  4. The introduction of new doctrine, for example in theology.
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Their attempts to get around these logical points generally result in an orgy of neologism and grammatical originality that gives me eye-ache.
The latter is the only instance of neologism I ever observed in Mr. Madison.
The neologism of flexicurity is being used to try and hide a neo-liberal ambition.
Justifying speciesism takes us back to square one, but with an ugly, misleading and tendentious neologism thrown in.
Like Clark Coolidge, whose verve depends on malapropism, neologism, and ricochet, Roberts bounces back and forth within a multivalent vocabulary.
Most languages have some self-critical locution, usually a wordplay or neologism, to indicate typical national defects.

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