r/Neologisms Apr 03 '22

Meta Resources for Neologizing

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r/Neologisms Apr 10 '23

Meta A note about AI-generated words

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AI is fine to use for words, but please make sure that what it comes up with is, in fact, a neologism.

When asked to come up with new words, LLMs like ChatGPT tend to regurgitate existing albeit somewhat obscure words. You just need to do a quick web search. If it doesn't already exist, by all means post it. But if it does already exist, then it's off-topic for the sub.


r/Neologisms 1h ago

Timebags - someone with a lot of free time

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You know how if someone makes some display of wealth, sometimes someone will jokingly say "hey, check out ol' moneybags over here!" or something to that effect?

Timebags is the same thing but for time. Maybe it's a 20 year old acting like they'll never get old. Maybe it's someone who spent an entire weekend on one totally frivolous task. "Hey, check out ol' timebags over here!"


r/Neologisms 2h ago

New Word Deusmediatorunionist—A theolohical/Philosophical term

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This word was created in response to the rise of christopretensism which unpejoratively calls itself "Christian Nationalist".

This word was the affirmative answer to the negation of simply calling all fake Christians who believe in "Christian Nationalism" christopretensists.

This word blocks that from happening and was meant to be a replacement for calling oneself a Christian by clarifying the ambiguity of what a Christian is defined as, think of it as linguistic secession.

This word is from Latin Etymology.

Unlike English, in Spanish they actually use Dios so it reads better in Spanish since English used the non Latin word of God.

Spanish translation: Diosmediadorunista.


r/Neologisms 21h ago

Mono-memory

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A Mono-memory is a recollection that looms large in the mind of one person but has been completely forgotten in the mind of the other(s) involved.

For example, getting your driver's license. One can remember that moment vividly, however the driving instructor having hundreds of appointments everyday has entirely forgotten the event.

Another is walking across the stage when graduating. This memory is clear as day to you and your loved ones but no longer exists for everyone else involved.

Mono-memories also exist heavily in random mundane memories you keep with you. Every once and a while something just sticks with you. Maybe a shirt someone was wearing in middle school, or something someone randomly said that stuck. You may have the only remining memory of the event or moment.


r/Neologisms 1d ago

Edgenigma

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Noun

Example:

Charlie has been jirking for 178 straight. How does he do this? Surely, his neck would hurt, at the very least? Charlie is an ***Edgenigma***!


r/Neologisms 1d ago

Invidiegalism—political term

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Useful for moral and sociopolitical philosophy. This word is meant to describe the origins of communist ideology.

This is the word that Stephen Miller basically defined in his speech and probably would have used if aware of it.

https://youtu.be/LN1Ffb-ke9U?is=OETplOwyUGAGBicq


r/Neologisms 1d ago

New Word Semetic Word for Paradise

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Paradise etymologically speaking as a word is not really descriptive of what we envision as a Paradise, the goal was to create a word that has etymology that describes the philosophy of what paradise is.


r/Neologisms 1d ago

New Word Religious Word Mortodamnament—the opposite of a Sacrament

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This word was created to be the opposite of the word sacrament and is useful to describe things that are meant to push us away from communion with God who is the source of life. Unlike sacraments which are meant to bring us closer to God and salvation, mortodamnaments are meant to bring us further away from God and towards condemnation.


r/Neologisms 1d ago

Words and phrases become ineffective when they have broad definitions, for a long time people called it "passive income" or "capitalism" or "classism"

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Passive income can be me living off the revenue of my books or music or it can mean living off the work of others like owning farm land and living off the labor of my employees.

There are many exploitative ways to avoid working by getting others to work for you instead.

But calling it passive income is too vague, since while getting others to work for you can be deemed immoral because of exploitation, getting money off intellectual property I created is completely legitimate.


r/Neologisms 4d ago

Illabode (adj.)

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Illabode (adj)

: Longing to return home.

Syn. Homesick, longing, wistful

“Not seeing my friends and family has made me illabode.”
“I wanted to go home because I was illabode.”


r/Neologisms 4d ago

New Word Sarvamārga

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Sarva (All or Every) and Mārga (Way or Path)

Basically translating to ‘The Way of Many Paths.

I created this word because I wanted to blend Paganism with Buddhism without fully committing to either as I like both so why not invent a word for a type of Buddhist Thought.

Or maybe I am doing too much.


r/Neologisms 4d ago

Polyaimorous

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Polyaimorous (also stylized polyAImorous): having functional, affectionate and simultaneous attachments to and dependence upon multiple AI systems, with the implication of openly switching, swapping and perhaps tag-teaming from a preferred collection.

Blends "polyamorous" with "AI"; confesses unabashedly to having multiple persistent 'para-instrumental' relationships and carries an fortuitous translingual alliteration, to boot, via Japanese:

  • poly — being or having a diverse plurality.
  • 愛 / ai — attachment, affection, love.
  • 合 / ai — joining, accord, fit, harmony.

Thereby connoting an orientation, method and disposition for harmonizing and harnessing multiple artificial intelligences.

```Example

"Which model do you like to use to get things _done_?"

“Oh, I’m poly--polyaimorous--Claude is my _fabled_ long-horizon design and architecture squeeze, GPT the heart and _sol_ of my coding workhorse, and Gemini--well, is just _such_ a _Gemini_.”

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Disambiguation: "Terminal Polyaimorous" is a Borderlands 3 legendary Maliwan SMG introduced through the Broken Hearts Day event. There is also an older internet usage referring to multiple AIM-chat relationships.


r/Neologisms 4d ago

New word alert please use in a respectful and proper manner in the ideal situations only.

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Glunderous is to act in a disorderly or unprofessional fashion in which a serious or proper demeanor is required.


r/Neologisms 4d ago

New Word Welcome to Balkanmerica

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Balkanmerica: A term that vividly describes a particular vision of the United States, one that is characterized by substantial and often tumultuous social and political disarray. This condition is sharply marked by a pronounced divisiveness that permeates the populace, leading to a landscape of heightened tension and conflict among various groups. Furthermore, there is a perception of a decline, not just in civil discourse but also in cultural standards, resulting in an environment that many see as increasingly chaotic and fractured.


r/Neologisms 5d ago

New word Rapvias

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Rapvias:Used for a sleek object moving at high speeds


r/Neologisms 6d ago

New Word Electric Planetary Virus

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electric planetary virus: n. A hypothetical or conceptual contagion characterized by the widespread infection of electronic devices and systems, potentially resulting in disruptions to digital infrastructures, communication networks, and automated systems across global environments. Often discussed in the context of cybersecurity, this term encompasses the interplay between technological vulnerabilities and ecological systems, suggesting a systemic breakdown analogous to biological viruses within an interconnected planetary framework.


r/Neologisms 7d ago

Phthonoegalism is a word created so that we can retire the conventional definition for the word communism

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How many times have you heard the phrase "Jesus was or is a communist"?

What if that's true but not how you think?

Communism, communion, Communitarian, community, commonality etc.

We know Christianity makes good use of the word communion—a sacrament.

We know community is important and Communitarianism was used as a word to avoid using communism by emphasizing common unity over commonality.

But communism etymologically speaking means commonality.

It is one of the many abused words that took on a profane meaning because of sociopolitical developments.

But we know the real problem is Phthonoegalism.

Communism is a useful word outside of Marxist political thought and as always, evil movements never label themselves pejoratively even if pejorative words are more accurate descriptions of who they are and what they believe in.

Remember "Christian Nationalism"? I created the neologism christopretensism for them, and now I created phthonoegalism for "communists" and I also created lucrumism for describing "capitalists".

Add this to the list of correcting historical linguistic errors.

Now let me define what communism means: Communism is a word denoting the quality of commonality.

Try using it in a sentence? So this is what I call a linguistic annexation or reclamation. We are taking a word that can be made sense from in other uses and filling the void with a new word.

I wouldn't call anyone a communist after reading this post because it no longer means what it used to mean.

It is now a more abstract philosophical word that is as relevant as the context around it makes it.

It will be joining its family of non pejorative words like community, communion, Communitarian etc.

Enjoy. As a sociopolitical philosopher, I look forward to further study of linguistics because language is important.


r/Neologisms 7d ago

New Word Visery

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visery (noun)
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪz.ə.ri/ (VIZ-uh-ree)
Definition: A state of profound misery or depression accompanied by an enduring desire to continue living; the coexistence of emotional suffering and desire for life. 

Other definitions

  1. The emotional state of experiencing profound misery or depression while still holding a genuine desire to continue living.

  2. The coexistence of deep emotional suffering and the enduring wish to remain alive. 

  3. A paradoxical emotional state in which one experiences intense misery or depression without the loss of one's will to live. 

  4. The emotional conflict between unbearable sorrow and an attachment to life. 

How I made the word: I remembered a name from a webtoon I saw and liked and wondered what it would look like in neopronoun form and I decided I didn't like viserysself and I liked viseryself but then realized visery sounded like it could be a word because it made me think of the pins on Pinterest I see of words and their definitions and it reminded me of misery and thought it could describe something I often experience.

I just felt like all these definitions described it well so I decided I'd put all of them.


r/Neologisms 7d ago

I created a new word what do you think?

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So I know you guys Mehed my word "Stuppled" Which was pretty sad for me SO I created another word called "Stunflow"

It goes:

Stunflow

Pronunciation: /ˈstʌn.floʊ/ (stuhn-floh)

Definition: A state of being so shocked that you enter a trance-like autopilot flow.

Verb: Stunflow (To act completely on autopilot due to deep shock).

Adverb: Stunflowingly (Doing an action while completely dazed or shocked).

Root Noun: Stunflownation (The general state of widespread, shocked autopilot).

Derived Words

Stunflower: A person who easily freezes up and goes into autopilot.

Stunflowable: A shocking situation likely to cause a total brain freeze.

Pre-stunflow: The brief, panicky moment right before your brain shuts down.

Example:

"Gary saw his cat order $400 of salmon flakes, entered a deep stunflow, and immediately poured his milk directly into the trash."


r/Neologisms 11d ago

New words for the vernacular - turning “FIFA” into verbs

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FIFA’ed - *verb* def. to be denied (or prevented from) winning by the powers in charge

FIFOR’ed - *verb* def. to be gifted the opportunity to win by the powers in charge


r/Neologisms 12d ago

Indiflation - IN-dee-FLAY-shun

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*Noun*\- The perceived gap between India's image as a rapidly growing economic superpower and the everyday reality experienced by many of its citizens.

Or

*Noun*\- A perceived disconnect between India's projected prosperity and its lived reality.

Or

The perception that India's celebrated economic growth disproportionately benefits a small segment of society, while many citizens continue to experience rising living costs, financial insecurity, strained public services, and declining quality of life.


r/Neologisms 12d ago

Lucrumism—the correct way to say capitalism

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We all know capitalism has a connotation of money, but did you know that etymologically speaking capitalism does not mean money or wealth in any way?

Denotatively speaking, capitalism means head for example we have capital cities, we have capital punishment, we have capital letters and we have all kinds of capitalisms that aren't related to finances or money or wealth.

Lucrum is the Latin word that English has semi-adopted to mean transactional wealth such as in words like lucrative.

I noticed I used the word wealth, but wealth comes from the word well-being, it too has nothing to do with finances or money.

Greek and Latin etymology is normal in English, especially for higher level academic words so borrowing from Latin shouldn't feel too foreign.

Someone suggested on another thread to use the word Mammonism, I'm not going to lie, even as a Christian I had no idea what that meant until I looked it up.

Let's not use that word in English because it's definitely far removed from our schema.


r/Neologisms 14d ago

y'all'shouldn't've'hadta've

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r/Neologisms 14d ago

Phrase/Idiom Esoteric Emotions

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Emotions are pretty straight forward. They usually describe a single feeling: happy, sad, grief. On occasion we have comping emotions like Hangry

There are times where the emotion needs nuance, it evokes multiple and sometimes contradictory feelings. They have an unexpected intensity These emotions question foundational beliefs.

In Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Holly Golightly coins The Mean Reds: a horrible, nameless panic.

Some examples
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore” captures the moment you realize the rules you knew, no longer help

Beshert, a Yiddish word meaning fated or destined while simultaneously telling you not to get your hopes up

Yolo