neoteric means modern, new-fangled. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
neoteric is pronounced /niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/.
Why “neoteric” is a great word
NEOTERIC — [Adjective, Noun] Adjective: Modern, recent, or new-fangled. Noun: A modern person, especially an innovative writer, or specifically one of the avant-garde Latin poets of the 1st century BC. From Late Latin neōtericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from the comparative form of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, "new"). First attested in English in the 1590s. Unlike "archaic," which consigns an idea to a vanished past, or "classical," which sanctifies an established tradition, "neoteric" describes the fresh, the insurgent, and the deliberately current. It is the sleek device that renders last year's model obsolete, the jarring syntax in a sonnet of perfect meter, and the scent of ink still damp on a polemical pamphlet. To be neoteric is to live with the exquisite anxiety of knowing your novelty is already fading.
Etymology
From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).
adj
- Modern, new-fangled.“Among our neoteric verbs, those in -ize are exceedingly numerous.”
- New; recent.“Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?”
noun
- A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).“Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.”
- Someone with new or modern ideas.
- any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.