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onomatopoiesis (medicine)


onomatopoiesis


The making of a name or word, especially to express or imitate a natural sound (e.g., hiss, crash, boom); in psychiatry, the tendency to make new words of this type is said to characterise some persons with schizophrenia.

See: neologism.

Origin: G. Onoma, name, + poiesis, making