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INTRODUCTION
​[A - C] - [D - F] - [G - I] - [J - L]
[M - O] - [P - R] - [S - U] - [V - Z]

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Classifying a Word as Archaic or Obsolete
Misusing a Word Means 20 to Life in the Pen
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PART 5 - FROM M to O


​MAC KHACH - a person who is in love with literature and appreciates its beauty. (Vietnamese)

MALAPROP - given to ludicrous misuse of words. From 1840

MALAPROPISM - misapplication of words without mispronunciation

MANUSCRIBE - to write with one's own hand. From 1649

MANUSCRIPTOR - one who writes manuscripts.

MATTERY - wordy, loquacious. From 1905

MELODRAMATIST - a writer of melodramas; a melodramatic author.

METALEXICOGRAPHER - someone who conceives of or theorizes about dictionaries.

METALINGUISTIC - language and terminology used to describe language and the component parts of language.

METANOIA: the act of self-correction in speech or writing (or to put that a better way, self-editing)

METAPHASIA - a person's knowledge of language and insight into the cognitive processes used to communicate using language.

METONYMY - the practice of not using the formal word for an object or subject and instead referring to it by using another word that is intricately linked to the formal name or word.

MICRONYMY - the use of shortened words for naming things, as in science (TNT); the use of short easy words instead of long difficult ones. 1889 nonce word

MILVER - was coined by Logan Pearsall Smith for ‘a person with whom one shares a strong interest in a particular topic; especially wordplay.

MIMOGRAPHER - a writer of mimes or farces.

MINIATURIST -describes a writer of short pieces of music or fiction. This term is still used occasionally. It turned up in a New York Times article from 1989: “Ms. Tolstaya is a miniaturist whose stories lack the political and moral resonance of the most formidable antirealists.”

MISOPHONIA - An extreme intolerance or hatred for certain sounds (Word Spy)

MOCKINGBIRD - slang for a word. 1960s British & Australian rhyming slang.

MOGIGRAPHIA - taken from a medical dictionary of 1857, it is a rare word meaning 'writer's cramp; the horrible stiffness of the hand which afflicts many writers who prefer to compose the old-fashioned way, pen or pencil in hand. Two famous pencil-users were Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck; Steinbeck was known to blunt up to 60 pencils a day. ‘ GRAPHOSPASM is an alternative word for mogigraphia.

MORPHOLOGY - the study of structure and form of words in language, including inflection, derivation, and formation of compounds.

MOT JUSTE - precisely the right, appropriate word.

MULTILOQUENCE - talkativeness; use of many words

MUSE - become absorbed in thought. From the Middle French word meaning “the mouth of an animal” or “snout.” The verb muse came to mean “to gape, to stare, to idle, to muse” because of the face one makes when lost in thought.

MUSOPHOBIST - A person who doesn't like poetry and is suspicious of it.

MYTACISM - excessive or wrong use of the sound of the letter M

MYTHOPOET - a writer of mythic or mythological poetry; a mythopoeic writer.

NEOLOGISMS - newly-created words used in expressions. Not all neologisms are entirely new. Some neologisms are built from new uses of old words, while others are combinations of old and new words. From 1803

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  • NEOLOGICAL - dealing with or characterized by new words or phrases. From 1754
  • NEOLOGISTIC (1827), NEOLOGOUS (1812) and NEOTERISTIC - pertaining to the use of new words or phrases (1973)
  • NEOLOGIZATION - the use or formation of new words or phrases. From 1846
  • NEOLOGIZE - to use new words or phrases; to make linguistic innovations. From 1846
  • NEOLOGIST - one who invents or uses new words or forms. From 1785
  • NEOLOGY - the creation (1846) of use of new words (1797).
  • NEONISM - creation of new words. From 1846
  • NEOTERISM - creation of new words. From 1873
  • NEOTERIST - one who uses or introduces new words or phrases. From 1873
  • NEOTERIZE - to coin or use new words or phrases. From 1873

NEOTERIC - a modern writer or author . From 1598

NOESIS - the Greek word “to think” or “to perceive” is ‘noesis’, meaning “purely intellectual knowledge” or “a process or act of thinking.” The adjective ‘noetic’ means “of, relating to, or based on the intellect.” Its use in philosophical and psychological theory and writing shows it to be the most abstract of the words of thought.

NONCE WORD (also called an OCCASIONALISM) is a lexeme created for a single occasion to solve an immediate problem of communication. Some nonce words may acquire a fixed meaning inferred from context and use, possibly even becoming an established part of the language, at which point they stop being nonce words. Some nonce words may be essentially meaningless and disposable, but they are useful for exactly that reason — the words "wug" and "blicket" for instance were invented by researchers to be used in exercises in child language testing.

NONWORD - a string of letters which cannot be pronounced and which has no meaning. For example, MCVRI or HEGZT. Contrast with pseudowords.

OCCASIONALISM -(also called a NONCE WORD) is when a lexeme is created for a single occasion to solve an immediate problem of communication.

OMNILEGENT - derived from Latin roots meaning “all” and “reading”, if you’re omnilegent then you’re either extremely well read and have a knowledge of a great amount of literature, or are absolutely addicted to reading everything that comes your way.

OMNILEGENT - reading or having read everything, characterized by encyclopedic reading

OMNIVERBARIOUS - using all sorts of words. From 1900

OMNIVERBIVOROUS - capable of 'swallowing' all words - From 1858

ON THE BLOB - by word of mouth. From 1851 slang

ONOMASTICS - the science or study of the origin and forms of proper names of persons or places.

ONOMATOMANIA - means intense mental anguish at the inability to recall some word or to name a thing.

ONOMATOMANIA - morbid dread of some word, intense mental anguish at the inability to recall some word, or to name a thing. From 1892

ORATOR - an eloquent writer. From 1587

ORISMOLOGY - the science of defining technical terms.

ORTHOGRAPHY - a complete writing system for a language or languages. Orthographies include the representation of word boundaries, stops and pauses in speech, and tonal inflections. See deep orthography.

ORTHOLOGY - correct use of words

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