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Jan 6 at 18:26 comment added mike rodent "Nonce class". Steady on, it's not that bad! (I'm English). No, I do in fact know what you mean, and also agree.
Jan 6 at 18:24 comment added Edwin Ashworth Again, I think 'coin' in this sense requires that a candidate be considered worded. No hits on Google IMO puts this in the nonce class, a candidate, not a word. And ELU looks at established (and verifiably so) usage.
Jan 6 at 18:21 comment added mike rodent Edward Bradford Titchener (who he?) would have complained. I'm not complaining. I was surprised that it's such a recent coinage though. And also quite a dodgy one: the meaning of Einfühling is not the same meaning as εμπάθεια in either Ancient or Modern Greek.
Jan 6 at 18:19 comment added Edwin Ashworth Neologisms are acceptable, but using the default definition 'candidates recently accepted into the lexicon', not D-I-Y contrivances. Thus new words found in say 'The Oxford Dictionary of New Words' by Sara Tulloch are fine.
Jan 6 at 18:18 comment added mike rodent Interestingly, according to Wiktionary, "empathy" is "a twentieth-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ἐν (en, “in, at”) + πάθος (páthos, “feeling”)), coined by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung." It adds: "The modern word in Greek εμπάθεια (empátheia) has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone."
Jan 6 at 15:52 comment added Andrew Leach What is enlogossy? An actual corroborated definition would really help here. We don't do neologisms.
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