By dkl9, written 2023-185, revised 2023-295 (5 revisions)
Here are some neologisms I made.
Coined in 2023.
Pronounced /ɔn'ɹæb.doʊ/.
preposition. in a weaker, smaller, less intense form
By analogy to "on steroids", with "rhabdo" abbreviating "rhabdomyolysis", a breakdown of muscles roughly the opposite of steroidal effects.
Example: Toki pona is Chinese on rhabdo.
Coined in 2023.
Pronounced /'εl.nεg/.
adjective. electronegative; noun. electronegativity
Abbreviation of "electronegative".
Example: Ceteris paribus, the more elneg the atom bonded to hydrogen, the stronger the acid.
Coined in 2023.
Pronounced /kɑɹ.mɚ/.
noun. one who acts with the intent of collecting positive karma, rather than directly being good (karma in either the religious reality sense or online voting sense)
Portmanteau of "karma" and "farmer".
Example: They're lurking in many forums to figure out where they can be a karmer.
Coined in 2023.
Pronounced /stʌtʃ/.
noun. such stuff
Portmanteau of "stuff" and "such".
Example: In the first few seconds after the Big Bang, the universe consisted of a disorganised soup of quarks and stuch.
Coined in 2023.
Pronounced /'nεp.ə.taɪz/.
verb. to favour relatives in the manner of nepotism
Back-formation from "nepotism".
Example: I considered asking a relative to nepotise me into a job.
Coined in 2023.
Pronounced /ɪn'fiɹ.i.ɚ'i.kwənt.ɪst/.
noun. derogatory synonym of "frequentist" (i.e. one opposed to Bayesianism as philosophy of probability)
Portmanteau of "inferior" and "frequentist".
Example: You might see my essay on Bayesianism as a rebuttal to the inferiorequentists.
Coined in 2023.
Pronounced /sɪθ/.
adverb, conjunction. because/since/for (this reason)
Revival of archaic "sith", originally from "sithen".
Example: I use "sith" sith it's one syllable, or three letters, shorter than "because".
Coined in 2023.
Pronounced /'pɑ.goʊ.kɹoʊ.ni/.
noun. pausing events around oneself, freezing of time
From the Greek-based morphemes "pago-" and "-chrony".
Example: We were suggested a choice of one of a few superpowers: strength, flight, pagochrony, neurolexia, or invisibility.
Coined in 2023.
Pronounced according to its component words.
noun. the inability to do a thing due to not (really) wanting to, including but not limited to akrasia
By analogy to "skill issue".
Example: You wrote so many recreational essays, but haven't published any? Sounds like a will issue.
Coined in 2023.
Pronounced /'sɜɹ.dʒɪ.keɪt/.
verb. to perform surgery
Modified from existing "surgery".
Example: We had to surgicate her back.
Coined in 2023.
Pronounced /nɪk'tɒ.fə.dʒi/.
noun. nighttime eating
From the Greek-based morphemes "nycto-" and "-phagy".
Example: Eating only dinner, I was a nyctophage for a few months.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /kɹʌks/.
verb. to make something, in a manner such that an indirect object is the crux
Extension of existing word.
Example: I cruxed my multiplicative closure proof on induction.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /ju'lεk.si.ə/.
noun. unusual skill with reading and words, the opposite of dyslexia
By analogy to "dyslexia", with the Greek-based morpheme "eu-".
Example: I expect the eulexic are overrepresented among linguists.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced according to its component words.
noun. appreciation/desire for something originally ignored upon finding it easily obtained, or a thing so desired
By analogy to "sour grapes".
Example: Many giveaways are only claimed out of perception of sweet grapes.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /'lɪn.di/.
adjective. already lasting for a while and being expected to last for a while longer; verb. to challenge a person/institution/technology/ideology/etc to test its fragility and make its lifespan reflect that
Back-formation from "Lindy effect".
Example: Contemporary society has been lindying the major religions of the past.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /'æn.ti'i.θɑs/.
noun. a writer/speaker's deliberate statements to remind the reader/listener of their unreliability
Boring but original use of existing words.
Example: My essay on fake solitude starts with some anti-ethos.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /'haɪ.poʊ.pleɪn/.
noun. a line or a point
By analogy to "hyperplane" (higher-dimensional equivalent of a plane) with "hypo-".
Example: In geometry, a flat, or Euclidean subspace, is one of a hypoplane, a plane, or a hyperplane.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced according to its component words.
noun. either of a pair of slashes used as delimeters around text
By analogy to "round bracket", "square bracket", "curly bracket", etc.
Example: IPA phonemic transcriptions are delimited with slant brackets.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /'aɪ.soʊ.moɹf/.
verb. to change something by an isomorphism
Back-formation from "isomorphism".
Example: The first step of the solution is to isomorph the problem into the language of graph theory.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /'mɪs.ə.nɪm/.
noun. misnomer, or a strange (not just fancy) word used when an ordinary one works
Misonym of "misnomer".
Example: Many usages of neologisms like these would be thoroughly misonymic.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /εk'lεn.tɹɪk/.
adjective. eccentric and eclectic, strange and of many interests
Portmanteau of "eccentric" and "eclectic".
Example: dkl9.net contains eclentric content, especially in the essays.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /al.goʊ'dɪ.ni.ə/.
noun. pain, especially extreme pain
From the Greek-based morphemes "algo-" and "-dynia".
Example: Contact with Dendrocnide moroides is known to induce algodynia.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced according to its component words.
noun. disturbance at how late it is
By analogy to "sticker shock".
Example: Editing the website yesterday, I got too focused and hit clock shock when I stopped.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /'mæs.ə.kaɪz/.
verb. to subject oneself to pain sith one enjoys it
Back-formation from "masochism".
Example: Some programmers masochise themselves by writing in assembly.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /'tεɹ.əɹ.i/.
noun. one who is terrorised, terror victim
By analogy to "terrorist" and other pairs such as "trainer"/"trainee".
Example: The many terrorees asked their government to help. It didn't work, and that's just what the terrorists wanted.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /'kre.gu/, /'kɹe.gu/, or /'kɹε.gu/.
interjection. used to indicate satisfaction
Contraction of Dutton Speedwords "k r e gu", literally "that will be good".
Example: Alice prepares a product for Bob; Bob watches and interrupts "kregu" when it's done enough for his purposes.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced according to its component words.
noun. an actively self-harmful action intended to prevent greater harm
Boring but original use of existing words.
Example: I was worried someone who didn't know my objections would post the records online, so I defensively sabotaged myself by posting my own version first.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced according to its component words.
noun. a temporary skill rapidly acquired during a repetitive task, or the development of such a skill
The human equivalent of "JIT", meaning "just-in-time compilation".
Example: My brain-JIT activated as I did textbook problems asking me to predict the Turing machine's behaviour.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced according to its component words.
noun. a thing very easily found
By analogy to "needle in a haystack".
Example: Weird and memorable words are basketballs in haystacks once you can use grep.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /'kwɑɹ.sɪ.ti/.
noun. speed (esp. of a production process)
Loosely based on "velocity", intended to fit with "quality" and "quantity".
Example: We value quality over quarcity.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced according to its component words.
noun. a name developed incidentally rather than deliberately given
By analogy to "given name".
Example: Some nicknames formed as received names.
Coined in 2022.
Pronounced /ɑk.si'soʊ.fɑn/.
noun. a pair of words that align in meaning and reinforce each other
By analogy to "oxymoron", replacing "-moron" (fool) with "-sophon" (wise). ("Oxymoron" breaks down as "sharp fool", and "oxysophon" as "sharp wisdom".)
Example: "Accidental mistake" is a bit of an oxysophon.
Coined in 2021.
Pronounced according to its component words.
adjective. uninformed in a particular topic
Boring but original use of existing words.
Example: Being domain-naive, I shouldn't try to teach you about cooking.
Coined in 2021.
Pronounced /klεp'tɒl.ə.dʒi/.
noun. the study of theft
From the Greek-based morphemes "klepto-" and "-logy".
Example: I used to know a detective who specialised in kleptology.
Coined in 2021.
Pronounced according to its component words.
proverb. don't reject improvement just sith the thing to improve is already good
By analogy to "don't make the perfect the enemy of the good".
Example: (it's a proverb; you just say it in isolation)
Coined in 2021.
Pronounced /swɪp/.
verb. to swap or flip, or anything in-between
Portmanteau of "swap" and "flip".
Example: The document made more sense after swipping the last couple paragraphs.
Coined in 2021.
Pronounced /saɪ.ən'sɒ.fɪk/.
adjective. scientific and philosophical
Portmanteau of "scientific" and "philosophical".
Example: The interpretation of quantum mechanics is a deeply sciensophic concern.