Bringing word into existence just by calling and using it [duplicate]
Sometimes, when I read essays, I see that writers make up words and by using them, they bring those words into existence.
For example:
In her article "Juban America", Ruth Behar uses the term "Juban", which is just the Jewish-Cuban identity, and though we know this term doesn't exist, she uses it. We know this word doesn't exist but after using it, it is brought into existence.
Is there a single word to name this strategy or phenomenon?
Solution 1:
It's called a neologism:
ne·ol·o·gism
noun
- a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- the introduction or use of new words or new senses of existing words.
- a new doctrine, especially a new interpretation of sacred writings.
- Psychiatry. a new word, often consisting of a combination of other words, that is understood only by the speaker: occurring most often in the speech of schizophrenics.
— source: Dictionary.com
The practice or art of creating new words is called neology or neologizing—although both terms are fairly obscure.
The precise construction of this word in particular makes it a portmanteau.
A related term is nonce word.
Solution 2:
Or simply "to coin a new word".
Solution 3:
If the word isn't used ever again, it is also a Hapax Legomenon:
a word which occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to describe a word that occurs in just one of an author's works, even though it occurs more than once in that work. Hapax legomenon is a transliteration of Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, meaning "(something) said (only) once"
Please note though, as noted in the comments, that:
hapax legomenon refers to a word's appearance in a body of text and to neither its origin nor its prevalence in speech