A technical problem here

Question

The term 'technical problem' can possibly be shortened to "technicality" and refer to the same thing. However,I would like to know what happens in this case.

We have a word i.e. technology and we try to a single word to describe a word for a technical problem in technology. Would it be "technologicality?"

Answer 1

The problem is not the fact that "technical problem" and "technicality" have different meanings, as you and others correctly notice that these meanings can overlap.

The real problem here is that you assume that "technicality" is shortening of the phrase "technical problem", but actually it is not. It comes from:

technicality

1814, from technical + -ity.

where -ity is a suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives, meaning "condition or quality of being ____,"

For technicality it is a condition or quality of being technical, which corresponds to first definition:

technicality

a detail about a particular subject that is understood only by an expert.

So, in the case of technologicality you do not have any problem implied anywhere, you only have "condition or quality of being technological".

Answer 2

People often misquote Jack Swigert on the Apollo 13 mission as saying Houston, we have a technical problem.

Until I read that wikipedia entry, I thought the misquote was simply that the word technical was never actually used. In fact Swigert said Houston, we've had a problem, but in the popular mind we might imagine this to mean that problem was already in the past at the time of speaking, so it's remembered as being in the present tense.

Coming to OP's specific issue after that outrageous deviation, I suggest technical hitch. This makes it clear the problem is real (rather than just a minor technicality), and that the 'direct' cause is a failure of the technology involved (rather than incompetence on the part of an operator, say).

OP's proffered technologicality is an easy and obvious neologism that has doubtless been [re-]coined many times over recent decades, but I can't see it gaining traction just because technicality happens to have been co-opted for minor technical detail.

I do note that technologicalization has started to appear more in recent decades. Clearly an Americanism, since the British spelling technologicalisation remains virtually unknown.

Answer 3

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines “technicality” as:

“a point of law or a small detail of a set of rules”

Given that, I'm not sure if I would understand what “technologicality” means were I to read it somewhere, and I don't think the reader would make the link to “technical problem”. So in this case it would probably be better to use existing words to say what you intend to.