neologism

newly coined word, phrase or meaning
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Summary

neologism is an usage[1]. neologism ranks in the top 6% of usage entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,495 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of word or phrase[3]
  • Subclass of: term[4]
  • Commons category: Neologism[5]
  • Opposite of: archaism[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Neologisms[7]
  • Described by source: Encyclopedia of Linguistics[8], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Soziolinguistika Hiztegia[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[13]
  • Partially coincident with: pop culture language[14]
  • Has characteristic: novelty[15]
  • Different from: protologism[16]
  • Studied by: sociolinguistics[17], neology[18]
  • Disjoint union of: list of values as qualifiers[19]
  • Practiced by: neologiser[20]
  • P14541: 4NukQY[21], 4Tmgvi[22]

Why It Matters

neologism has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] neologism is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . merriam-webster.com. merriam-webster.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . ahdictionary.com. ahdictionary.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 19d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ary', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'br', 'bs'
    J-global id → 200906061642459967
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ J-global id: 200906061642459967, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/262213142|Neologism (#262213142)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7507|J-GLOBAL te"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4NukQY, 4Tmgvi
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003510-neologismy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003510-neologismy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → neologiser
    Disjoint union of → list of values as qualifiers, list of values as qualifiers, list of values as qualifiers
    Instance of → usage, type of word or phrase
    Studied by → sociolinguistics, neology
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 12604, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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