Neonymy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Neonymy is a noun meaning The coining of new terms.
Meaning
The coining of new terms.
More Meanings
- The process of giving a new name to an established concept; renaming.
Example Sentences
According to the letter of the law I might be convicted of neologism, but its spirit would acquit me of neonymy in any unusual or unjustifiable degree.
Most recently, Communist leaders of spiritual-political movements likewise practiced neonymy, such as the lawyer Vladimir Ulyanov who became Nicolai Lenin, Marxist Revolutionary.
Rather, identity reformation and mass 'political neonymy' focused on an anti-European Hebraicization that induced writers such as Rachel, SY Agnon and many others to reject their Ashkenazic birth names and adopt Hebrew ones.
The software packages which exist on the market would become more useful if they would pay much more attention to neonymy. Have people studied sufficiently the possibilities offered by terminology to perfect these software packages?
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include paleonymy, deonym, pseudonymy, paronymy, eponymism, neotoponymy.
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