English Explanatory Dictionary

pseudoneologism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A word or expression that appears to be a neologism, but is actually either not genuinely new or is a pseudoform derived from existing linguistic elements.

Word forms

pseudoneologism pseudoneologisms

Etymology

From pseudo- + neologism.

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