Posts Tagged: neologism

  • SUBJECT: Metrophobia is the fear of poetry IMAGE: student with book on their head

    Metrophobia is fear of poetry

    What stops me from publishing poetry on this site is that we all suffer from poetry anxiety. As soon as people offer to read you some poetry we nervously await over-earnest sentimentality. I found a word on several Internet sites to describe this: metrophobia, meaning fear of poetry. One psychology site,  (viewed Jun 2008) describes […]

  • The new world generates new words ... neologisms

    Using a NEOLOGISM

    Neologisms are newly coined words or expressions (from Greek neo for new and logos for word) that often refer to new concepts or ideas. Some are developed just for fun: floordrobe – an adolescent’s clothing storage system lexerati – the group of literati interested in new words linkrot – hyperlinks on a neglected website that […]