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It's kinda difficult to describe what I mean exactly, but I couldn't think of an example. Maybe I can add it later if I come up with one.

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The art/science of naming for example these complex situations within a single word:

• (not mine) "Waited a long time to read book. Read book. Didn't like book. Life now empty." "There should be a word for that."

• The empty but also content feeling you get after finishing a story or movie because you're "life" within the story stops. There could be a word for this.

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  • The closest established term I'm familiar with is toponymy. It is a scholastic discipline dedicated to the study of place names.
    – Dan Bron
    Commented Jun 3, 2017 at 13:16
  • You mean like EXTINCTIONSPECTROPHOTOPOLERISCOPEOCCULOGRAVOGYROKYNETOMETER?
    – Hot Licks
    Commented Jun 3, 2017 at 13:17
  • It sounds like you are looking for a technical term, however if you're looking for a descriptive word for the action you might describe it as 'encapsulation'
    – Tom22
    Commented Jun 3, 2017 at 21:24

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If you're looking for a technical term for the practice of consolidating to a single word, this isn't it, however if you're looking to describe what you're doing, you might say it is:

Encapsulation at Oxford Living Dictionaries

2The succinct expression or depiction of the essential features of something.

‘his encapsulation of the concept’

Perhaps, you could coin a term "Encapsulative naming"

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