neology
Meanings
noun
- The study or art of neologizing (creating new words).
- A reformist school of 18th- and 19th-century Christian theology influenced by doctrinal rationalism and the methods of historical criticism.
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Etymology
From neo- + -logy. In the theological sense, originally implying its proponents were innovators departing from religious tradition.
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