2000s neologisms

thumb | right | Sculpture representing the bird in the Twitter logo. Twitterature (a portmanteau of Twitter and literature) is a literary use of the microblogging service X (formerly Twitter). It includes various genres, including aphorisms, poetry, and fiction (or some combination thereof) written by individuals or collaboratively. The 280-character maximum imposed by the medium, upgraded from 140 characters in late 2017, provides a creative challenge.

style of drama

Nanopunk is a subgenre of science fiction that describes a world where nanites and bio-nanotechnologies are widely in use and nanotechnologies are the predominant technological forces in society, similar to biopunk.

form of ambient minimalist music where very quiet, usually unheard, sounds are amplified to extreme levels

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In linguistics, a protologism is a newly used or coined word, a nonce word, that has been repeated but has not gained acceptance beyond its original users or been published independently of the coiners. The word may be proposed, may be extremely new, or may be established only within a very limited group of people.

type of aircraft

Duang (Mandarin pronunciation: ); ; written as in Hong Kong Cantonese with Jyutping dung6 eu6) is a Chinese neologism that has become a viral meme despite its meaning being unclear. It has become a popular hashtag on Sina Weibo with more than 8 million mentions by the start of March 2015.

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young adults returning to live with their parents

thumb|Latinx, gender-neutral term used to describe people who are of Latin American origin or descent

thumb|Afghanistan and Pakistan AfPak (also spelled Af-Pak) was a neologism used within United States foreign policy circles to designate Afghanistan and Pakistan as a single theater of operations. Introduced in 2008, the neologism reflected the policy approach that was introduced by the Obama administration, which regarded the region comprising the Asian countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan as having a singular dominant political and military situation that required a joint policy in their global war on terrorism.

individual post on the X (formerly Twitter) microblogging service

Pejorative term for women

self-portrait photo taken in outer space

multilinear filmmaking style

thumb|upright=1.4|Allophilia scale In sociology, allophilia is the phenomenon of having a positive attitude towards members of an out-group. The out-group member can be anyone who possesses characteristics that are different from one's own (the in-group), such as a person who does not belong to the same race or ethnicity, culture, or religion. It is a framework for understanding effective inter-group leadership and is conceptualized as a measurable state of mind with tangible consequences.

long-term effect of playing video games on the human brain

Type of office suite software

Russian police euphemism for torture

Yanukisms () is a Ukrainian colloquial term for various linguistic errors and mistakes made by former President Viktor Yanukovych, who was widely noted for frequent malapropisms and misspellings, which contrasted with the formal and educated image he projected in public.

Danshari is a Japanese neologism referring to a form of systematic decluttering and optimization of the things in a home, and is composed of the words dan (refuse), sha (dispose) and ri (separate). It was coined by author Hideko Yamashita to distinguish between minimalists (who try to minimise their belongings), and those who try to optimize their belongings.

idiomatic expression; variant of "rest in peace"

pejorative term to describe certain realist-genre books

US government action against the radical environmental movement