Talk:topogony

RFV discussion: November 2019–January 2020
OneLook didn't give any hits and the term seems to be pretty rare according to a Google search. --Robbie SWE (talk) 11:57, 29 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I have added two cites to the citations page. I found another academic article that I cannot verify because it is behind a paywall. I am inclined to consider the second definition valid, but can find no evidence for the first. Kiwima (talk) 23:16, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Here is one more book cite:
 * But unlike the inadvertent architects of heterotopia and Saeniha’a, Taroiara seeks fundamentally to alter the premises and processes of Arosi topogony; or, more accurately, he argues that they have already been altered.
 * GBS only offers snippet view, so it is hard to make out what is meant precisely. The author introduces the concept of “topogonic primordiality” earlier in the book. However, caution, this one occurrence of topogony in the book may a typo for topogeny, which occurs at least thrice.
 * It appears to me that several authors have coined the term independently as a neologism, each with their own, sometimes inscrutable, sense of bringing in some way something corresponding to some notion of place or space into existence. These notions are quite disparate; there is no commonality that allows the lexicographer to settle on a meaning. --Lambiam 20:55, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed. I think Lambiam is right in considering it a nonce neologism. Kiwima (talk) 20:11, 1 January 2020 (UTC)