Retrieval is a type of neologism. It consists of the new name that is given to an existing object or concept, but needs to have an additional definition to differentiate it from a new form or version of the same object or concept.
The term is a linguistic sketch of the English retronym neologism, conceived by Frank Mankiewicz in 1980 and has become famous thanks to William Safire on the New York Times. Formatting wikitesto
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