coining

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of coin

noun

1. (uncountable)A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.
2. (countable)A created word or phrase.

   “Poetry admits of greater latitude than proſe, which with reſpect to coining, or, at leaſt, new-compounding words; yet, even here, this liberty ſhould be uſed with a ſparing hand.”

   “Once we move into the Patristic period, there is undoubted evidence for new coinings of words (particularly compounds) as a response to the needs of the theological debates which occurred.”

   “Coinings or neologisms are words that have recently been created. […] True coinings, which are completely new words, are rather rare relative to the vast number of words we create by means of the other word formation processes.”