paleologism

Meanings

Plural: paleologisms

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.

Origin / Etymology

From paleo- + -logism, from Ancient Greek: παλαιός (palaiós, “old”) in combination with λόγος (lógos, “word”).

Antonyms

neologism

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