glossopoeia

noun /ˌɡlɒsəʊˈpɪə/

1. The creation of constructed languages for artistic purposes; language so created.

   uncountable

   Still more curiously, English offers a second pair of homophones — “hew” and “hew” — with a quite similar range of antonymous meanings, opening the possibility of a glossopoeia of a most cunning and pleasing sort.

Where it comes from

From glosso- (“language”) + -poeia (“making”); coined by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry glossopoeia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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