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A neophrasm is a newly coined phrase. A periphrasm is a circumlocutory phrase. (A periphrasis is the process of circumlocution while a perphrasm is the actual phrase used.)
posted by Twerpette @ 4:21 PM
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Can you give me an example? Like, I tend to describe easy mental tasks by saying "it's not exactly rocket surgery." Is that the neophrasis or the periphrasm?
--Bucky
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Yours is a good example of a neophrastic conflation. ;-)
Anytime someone says you are engaging in periphrasis, what you said is the periphrasm.
(As always, pontifications made here may not be infallible.)
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