What is the term in linguistics for when a word comes to have a new meaning over time?
(Like the word 'wicked', which is commonly used to demonstrate this idea)
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(Like the word 'wicked', which is commonly used to demonstrate this idea)
It is called semantic change (also semantic shift, semantic progression or semantic drift).