coining

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɪnɪŋ/

coining

1. present participle and gerund of coin

coining (countable and uncountable, plural coinings)

1. (uncountable) A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.

   Synonyms: kerokan, gua sha

2. (countable, linguistics) A created word or phrase.

   Synonyms: coinage, neologism

   • 1783, Hugh Blair, edited by George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review‎, volume 68, Art. V. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres., page 499:

     Poetry admits of greater latitude than proſe, which with reſpect to coining, or, at leaſt, new-compounding words; yet, even here, this liberty ſhould be uſed with a ſparing hand.

   • 1989, G.H.R. Horsley, “The Greek Documentary Evidence and NT Lexical Study: Some Soundings”, in New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity‎, volume 5, →ISBN, page 77:

     Once we move into the Patristic period, there is undoubted evidence for new coinings of words (particularly compounds) as a response to the needs of the theological debates which occurred.

   • 2009, Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck, “Morphological Typology and Word Formation”, in Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction‎, →ISBN, page 194:

     Coinings or neologisms are words that have recently been created. […] True coinings, which are completely new words, are rather rare relative to the vast number of words we create by means of the other word formation processes.