What's the difference between malapropism and neologism?
Malapropism
Definition:
(n.) A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.
Example Sentences:
(1) My mum, Olwen, was a bright and talkative woman who loved a gossip and a story, and was given slightly to malapropisms.
(2) Her Mrs Malaprop in Belgrade Theatre's touring production of Sheridan's The Rivals was hailed as "the play's vociferous focal point".
(3) In some patients, the combinative ambiguity or malapropism expresses the fear of reprisal through the transformation into a self-inflicted injury.
(4) The point is malapropisms and mispronunciations are fairly common.
Neologism
Definition:
(n.) The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.
(n.) A new word, phrase, or expression.
(n.) A new doctrine; specifically, rationalism.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is one programmatic term that left and right will perhaps continue to use, the EU-neologism of "flexicurity" in labour market and social policy.
(2) Now, call me old fashioned, but I don’t believe that undergrad neologisms such as “mansplaining” have any place in film criticism.
(3) The authors compared nine manic patients exhibiting formal thought disorders (tangentiality, neologisms, drivelling, private use of words, and paraphasias) with 102 manic patients without these thought disorders and with 31 schizophrenic patients.
(4) Neologisms – new words or old words given strange new meanings – are essential to the book, and pepper the dialogue, which is a brew of detective fiction demotic and techno-speak: “Hit the first strata and that’s all she wrote.
(5) It's in this "gap" that W1A 's comedy is located, but it's also where many real-life professionals ply their trade, bamboozling the gullible and the desperate with their bewitching neologisms, barmy suggestions and bizarre leadership tests.
(6) In the course of that work, each of them had to sit through cultural trend forecasts, PDF or PowerPoint presentations juxtaposing cliched stock photography with Nathan Barley-ish neologisms predicting the future.
(7) In view of an ever-increasing infiltration of the German medical vocabulary by Britishisms and Americanisms, a linguistic attempt was made to categorize this phraseology as follows: more or less incorporated terminology, "internationalized" terms, identical translations, unnecessary use of English expressions instead of German synonyms, borrowing from the English with an alteration of the original meaning, and German neologisms on the basis of English vocabular material.
(8) And what about the rest of us staycationers who have spent recent summers indoors playing board games and going to bed early, where we would lie awake coining such neologisms as wetcation, wallydays, and glummer (a tortured play on summer).
(9) NC's output is fluent but contains many formal paraphasias and neologisms.
(10) We may soon be making neologisms of Hallberg’s name, too.
(11) More autistic subjects used neologisms and idiosyncratic language than age- and language skill-matched control groups.
(12) The Internet of Things may be one of the clumsier neologisms to have emerged in recent times, but that has seemingly done nothing to slow its growth.
(13) In a second phase symptoms were observed such as paralogism, echolalia, verbigeration, circumstantiality, neologism, hypotonic thinking, perseveration, blocking.
(14) Patients with Alzheimer's dementia were distinguished from patients with Wernicke's aphasia by producing more empty phrases and conjunctions, whereas patients with Wernicke's aphasia produced more neologisms, and verbal and literal paraphasias.
(15) This analysis of naming errors during recovery showed that neologisms, literal and verbal paraphasias occurred.
(16) The linguistic disturbances were marked by the unusual association of oral expression consisting mainly of neologisms, normal comprehension and almost normal written expression.
(17) Video-EEG during the reiterative neologisms demonstrated rhythmic delta activity, which was most prominent in the left posterior temporal region.
(18) However, a review of current literature and psychiatric textbooks reveals few clinical examples of neologism that may be used for illustrative purposes.
(19) The data is described in terms of segments, syllables and sequences of syllables and related to both a mechanism underlying the production of this sort of speech and to the more general problems of neologisms in jargon aphasia.
(20) A patient with right hemisphere complex partial seizures exhibited extreme emotional lability resembling mania, neologisms resembling those found in fluent aphasia, and hallucinations during ictal periods.