neonymy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "After pointing out the basic principles of neonymy, the principal methods of neonymic formation of chemical terms are cited and illustrated by examples taken from recent nomenclature recommendations issued by the International Union of Biochemistry (IUB), the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Standards Organization (ISO), and other international organizations."
- "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?"
- "Hence Derrida brings forward as strategies of deconstruction paleonymy and neonymy. The first is a formation recalling what was discussed a propos the bricoleur, where an old signifier brings with it archaisms into a changed context."
- "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."
Etymology
From neo- + -onymy.