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prettygoodwordneoteric (nee-uh-TEHR-ik) - adj., modern, contemporary, new.
Coming straight (via Latin) from the word the Greeks (neṓteros, youthful/fresh, from the comparative for neos, new) used for calling something contemporary, or up-to-date, or avant-garde. There was even a Neoteric school of Hellenistic period poets, who eventually suffered the same fate of that our Modernist poets are now, of being old-fashioned yet stuck with a now-inappropriate name. First used in English in the 1590s, but now itself a somewhat stuffy synonym for newfangled.
---L.
Coming straight (via Latin) from the word the Greeks (neṓteros, youthful/fresh, from the comparative for neos, new) used for calling something contemporary, or up-to-date, or avant-garde. There was even a Neoteric school of Hellenistic period poets, who eventually suffered the same fate of that our Modernist poets are now, of being old-fashioned yet stuck with a now-inappropriate name. First used in English in the 1590s, but now itself a somewhat stuffy synonym for newfangled.
---L.
