Noun

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

(countable, linguistics) A newly created word or phrase

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, year=1783 , author=Hugh Blair , editor=George Edward Griffiths , title=The Monthly Review , volume=68 , section=Art. V. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. citation , page= 499 , passage=Poetry admits of greater latitude than pro?e, which with re?pect to coining , or, at lea?t, new-compounding words; yet, even here, this liberty ?hould be u?ed with a ?paring hand. }}

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, year=1989 , author=Horsley, G.H.R. , title=New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity , volume=5 , chapter=The Greek Documentary Evidence and NT Lexical Study: Some Soundings citation , isbn=9780858376366 , page=77 , passage=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.}}

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, year= 2009 , author=Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck , title=Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction , chapter=Morphological Typology and Word Formation citation , isbn=9781413015898 , page= 194 , passage=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.}}

Noun

(psychology, ethology) Any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.