Why this word is great
PROTOLOGISM — [Noun] A newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become common; a recently created term possibly in narrow use but not yet acknowledged. Coined by Mikhail Epstein in 2003, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, "first") + Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, "word") + -ism, by analogy with prototype and neologism. Unlike "neologism" (which has already found its footing in the language) or "nonce word" (which is born to die in a single utterance), a protologism is an act of optimism, a bet placed on the future. It is the hopeful murmur of an inventor whispering a name for their unbuilt machine, the tentative label scrawled on a theorist’s napkin, or the awkward but earnest phrase fumbled by a poet reaching for what has not yet been said—language’s perpetual gamble on its own expansion.