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protologism

noun
/pɹəʊˈtɒləˌdʒɪzm/UK

Etymology

Coined by Mikhail Epstein in 2003, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word”) + -ism, by analogy with prototype and neologism.

Definitions

  1. A newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become common

    A newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become common; a recently created term possibly in narrow use but not yet acknowledged.

    • This word is so new-fangled that it hasn't yet been accepted as part of the language—which makes it not a "neologism" but a "protologism."
    • The linguistic invention-animation-based lectures (ABL) as a protologism was first used by us in 2009.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for protologism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA