(n.) The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of neology.
(n.) A new doctrine; esp. (Theol.), a doctrine at variance with the received interpretation of revealed truth; a new method of theological interpretation; 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.
Rational
Definition:
(n.) A rational being.
(a.) Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.
(a.) Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning.
(a.) Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man.
(a.) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(2) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(3) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(4) The yeasts amounts used did not protect the test animals from the kidney infiltration with lipids and cholesterol; 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the ration promoted elevation of sialic acid content in the blood plasma.
(5) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(6) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
(7) Knowledge of these lesions could form the basis for establishing a useful and rational therapy for such cases.
(8) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(9) --The influence of the digestibility of the energy in the ration on the energetic retention effect of BFC is small.
(10) The length of delay is determined by unconscious, non-rational processes, and other factors beyond her control.
(11) But it can be a more rational and better developed approach to long-term care based on the experience and knowledge we have gained in the past 50 years.
(12) The authors further show how test results can be used rationally by clinicians by so-called threshold analysis.
(13) The aetiology remains at present uncertain and therefore rational therapeutic strategies are difficult to plan.
(14) The origin of these substances is unknown, but these findings provide a rational basis for trials of benzodiazepine-receptor antagonists in the management of this disorder.
(15) We reviewed our experience with 245 thyroidectomies to define the spectrum of hypocalcemia, elucidate the mechanisms of hypocalcemia, and formulate a rational basis for its management.
(16) The data obtained can be useful when choosing a rational method for the therapy of gastric scretory disorders.
(17) Willie Spies, its legal representative, said: "Rationality has to return to the debate.
(18) A 35-kg Duroc pig died 3 days after eating a ration containing aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, and G2.
(19) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(20) The resolution of the cellular events which underlie the development of pancreatitis in combination with the introduction of new therapeutic agents may enable a rational and safe protocol to be developed for the support of patients with pancreatitis.