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18th-century neologisms

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pseudoscience
thumb|upright=1.35|A typical 19th-century phrenology chart: during the 1820s, phrenologists claimed the mind was located in areas of the brain, and were attacked for doubting that mind came from the nonmaterial soul. Their idea of reading "bumps" in the skull to predict personality traits was later discredited. Phrenology was first termed a pseudoscience in 1843 and continues to be considered so.
The unconscious
group of psychic characters and processes that are reflected in behaviour, even though not shown in the conciousness
slang
Slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usage) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing and speech. It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both. The word itself came about in the 18th century and has been defined in multiple ways since its conception, with no single technical usage in linguistics.
reform
Reform refers to the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc. The modern usage of the word emerged in the late 18th century and is believed to have originated from Christopher Wyvill's Association movement, which identified "Parliamentary Reform" as its primary aim. Reform is generally regarded as antithetical to revolution.
catgirl
thumb|alt=Illustration of Wikipe-tan as a catgirl. She is a young girl with blue hair, cat ears and a tail, wearing a maid dress, and is laying down on all fours with one hand forward posing as a cat.|A shōjo| illustration of Wikipe-tan as a catgirl maid, with cat ears and a tail.
Japanophilia
right|thumb|Lafcadio Hearn, who adopted the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, was an early Western advocate of Japanese culture.
Open Sesame
magical phrase in the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"
hell ship
Imperial Japanese Navy ship with extremely inhumane living conditions
Edokko
is a Japanese term referring to a person born and raised in Edo (renamed Tokyo in 1868). The term is believed to have been coined in the late 18th century in Edo. Being an Edokko also implied that the person had certain personality traits different from the non-native population, such as being assertive, straightforward, cheerful, perhaps a bit mercantile (cf. Kyoto, the capital of aristocratic Japan, and Osaka, the capital of mercantile Japan; see also iki and ). thumb | right | From the picture album "Azuma Nishiki-e‎"Today, the definition of "Edokko" may vary. The Japanese dictionary simpl
Monkey see, monkey do
pidgin-style saying