- onomatopoiesis
- The making of a name or word, especially to express or imitate a natural sound ( e.g., hiss, crash, boom); in psychiatry, the tendency to make new words of this type is said to characterize some persons with schizophrenia. SEE ALSO: neologism. [G. onoma, name, + poiesis, making]
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n.inventing words that reflect the sound made by the object or event to be described. It is one of the principles guiding some schizophrenics in the production of neologism.* * *
on·o·mato·poi·e·sis (on″ə-mat″ə-poi-eґsis) onomatopoeia.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
