Utopias (incidentally the coined word Utopia doesn't mean "a good place, " it means merely "a non- existent place") have been common in the literature of the past three or four hundred years, but the "favourable" ones are invariably unappetising, and usually lacking in vitality as well.
Tolkien coined the word first to describe the incarnation which Christians are currently celebrating.
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French sociologist Emile Durkheim famously coined the word effervescence to describe the fizzy excitement of crowds.
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Mike Baker has been one of the first television correspondents to write a regular column for the emerging BBC News website - long before anyone had coined the word "blog".
But the dark underside of the aspiration to meritocracy as Michael Young, who coined the word in 1958, foresaw is an assumption that the poor are the way they are because they deserve to be, whether through laziness, obstinacy or just plain stupidity.
Recall how in 2007, the "Paulbots" were everywhere: running up the numbers on every online poll they could find, generating one-day fundraising records in a desperate bid for national attention (they coined the word "money-bomb"), and creating massive amounts of voter-generated media on his behalf.
Petropolitics, a word coined by Tom Friedman in Foreign Policy Magazine to describe the way nations with oil tend to be less democratic than nations without oil.
Deniability was a defense she mastered long before the word was coined.
Stick-to-itiveness is a real word and a handy noun coined in 1884, meaning dogged perseverance.
And I think it was perhaps a more appropriate word twenty years ago when it was coined than it is now.
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But there's a word that's not well known at all and it was coined - in a few decades ago - and it's called Islamicate.
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