Paleologism

Quick meaning: Paleologism is a noun meaning An obsolete term.

Meaning

An obsolete term.

More Meanings

1. A word or phrase that was coined in the distant past, often now obscured or offensive, or if recently used: possibly having a definition or implication different from that of any earlier usage.

Example Sentences

The word trust is in no way a neologism. On the contrary, it is a kind of paleologism, a primitive signifier, "a word from a barbarian time."

Levinas seems to be offering new words or newly burnished words for old, those apparent semantic neologisms are more like pre-semantic paleologisms.

Another is the paleologism of pars pro toto in which a part of an organ or function can symbolize the whole organ or concept; eg, the stomach may be the locus of difficulty with a patient with a history of frustrated dependency needs because of its association with the process of being fed and loved by the mother.

Word Forms

• paleologisms
• palaeologism

Antonyms for paleologism

Common opposites include neologism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include protologism, paleonymy, paleonym, pseudoloan, allogenism, pseudo-anglicism.

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