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fakehood

fakehood noun: the condition or state of being fake.

Noun

fakehood (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The condition or state of being fake.
    • I am a bad music critic – I love music too much to tell the truth about the emotional "fakehood of the art."1900, The Bookman, volume 11, page 501
    • And then the base and cowardly manner in which it has been done bears at once the mark of fakehood on its front.1921, Ohio Archæological and Historical Quarterly, volume 30, page 419
    Synonyms:
    fakeness

Synonyms of fakehood

Origin of fakehood

From fake + -hood. Possibly also as a blend of fake + falsehood.

Questions about fakehood

What does fakehood mean?
Fakehood means the condition or state of being fake.
What part of speech is fakehood?
Fakehood is a noun.

Words near fakehood in the dictionary

  1. fakefans
  2. fakefen
  3. fakeful
  4. fakegasm
  5. fakegasms
  6. fakehood
  7. fakeitude
  8. fakelaki
  9. fakelakia
  10. fakellaki
  11. fakellakia

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