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A blobject is a product, such as a household object, distinguished by smooth flowing curves and an absence of sharp edges.

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A blobject is a product, such as a household object, distinguished by smooth flowing curves and an absence of sharp edges.

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Thousands of words have entered the language in the past 100 years. Here is a partial list:

  • x-ray, or röntgenograph(November 8, 1895, by Röntgen)
  • radar (1941) from Radio Detection And Ranging
  • laser (1960) from Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
  • blackhole (1968)
  • meme (1976)
  • prion (1982)
  • lidar (late 90s) from Light Detection And Ranging
  • Internet (1974)
  • hyperspace (1934)
  • robotics (1941)
  • waldo (1942)
  • ansible (1966)
  • phaser (1966)
  • ringworld (1971)
  • replicant (1982)
  • cyberspace (1984)
  • xenocide (1991)
  • metaverse (1992)
  • alien space bats (1998)
  • teleojuxtaposition (2003)
  • carpetbagging (19th century)
  • genocide (1943)
  • Dixiecrat (1948)
  • meritocracy (1958)
  • pro-life (1961)
  • homophobia (1969)
  • Californication (1970s)
  • heterosexism (1979)
  • glocalisation (1980s)
  • astroturfing (1986)
  • Islamophobia (1991)
  • fauxtography (1996)
  • corporatocracy (2000s)
  • Islamofascism (2001)
  • santorum (2003)
  • Chindia (2004)
  • Saddlebacking (2009)
  • Accenture (2001), derived from 'Accent on the future'
  • Acette (2002), derived from 'ace', meaning expertise, and the encapsulating suffix 'ette'; when read together as aye~set signifying 'expertise encapsulated'.
  • Protiviti (2002), derived from professionalism and proactivity as well as independence and integrity.
  • Bauhaus (early 20th century)
  • blobject (1990s)
  • fabject (2004), a fabricated 3-D object
  • kirkyan (2006)
  • moin (early 20th century)
  • prequel (1958)
  • posterized (c. 1980s) ("posterize" also has existed for some time as a term for an image-editing technique; its neologistic sports usage is completely unrelated)
  • queercore (mid 1980s)
  • blog (late 1990s)
  • chav (early 2000s)
  • webinar (early 2000s)
  • truthiness (2005) (already existed as an obscure word previously recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary, but its 2005 usage on the Colbert Report was a neologistic one, with a new definition)
  • fauxhawk (late 1990s)
  • aspirin
  • hoover
  • laundromat
  • linguistics
  • retronym (popularized in 1980)
  • backronym (1983)
  • aptronym (2003; popularized by Franklin Pierce Adams)
  • snowclone (2004)
  • xerox
  • googling
  • photoshopping
  • protologism (2005)
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