paleologism

Meaning

Noun

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

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Origin

  • -logism, from Ancient Greek: παλαιός in combination with λόγος.

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