neologism
C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
NeutralRegister
General noun
A newly coined word or expression not yet in established use.
Every generation of poets smuggles a few neologisms into the language.
Medicine noun
A newly coined word or expression whose meaning is idiosyncratic to the speaker and unintelligible to others, seen in psychosis.
Scattered through his account were neologisms such as 'trancifying', words that carried private significance but no shared meaning.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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