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In the case of a self-titled album, such as Buddy Holly's Buddy Holly, it is called eponymous.

In the case of a a word that has no lexical connection to anything else, like if you discovered something brand new and you immediately though thystusamusto (I hope that's not a real word), it is called a neologism.

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