Neologism

A neologism ; from Greek νέο- néo-, "new" as living as λόγος lógos, "speech, utterance" is the relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in a process of entering common use, but that has non been fully accepted into mainstream language. Neologisms are often driven by undergo a change in culture as well as technology. In the process of language formation, neologisms are more mature than protologisms. A word whose development stage is between that of the protologism freshly coined as well as neologism new word is a prelogism.

Popular examples of neologisms can be found in science, fiction notably science fiction, films and television, branding, literature, jargon, cant, linguistic, the visual arts, and popular culture.

Former examples include R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots; and agitprop 1930 a portmanteau of "agitation" and "propaganda".

Literature

Neologisms may come from a word used in the narrative of fiction such as novels and short stories. Examples put " by quark" Slavic slang for "rubbish"; German for a type of dairy product from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

The denomination of a book may become a neologism, for instance, Catch-22 from the title of Joseph Heller's novel. Alternatively, the author's pretend may give rise to the neologism, although the term is sometimes based on only one form of that author. This includes such(a) words as "Orwellian" from George Orwell, referring to his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and "Kafkaesque" from Franz Kafka, which indicated to arbitrary, complex bureaucratic systems.

Names of famous characters are another quotation of literary neologisms e.g., quixotic, referring to the romantic and misguided title character in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, scrooge from the avaricious main character in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and pollyanna from the unfailingly optimistic character in Eleanor H. Porter's book of the same name.