pseudo-analytical

Adjective

pseudoanalytical (not comparable)

1. Having a false appearance of relying on legitimate analysis; based on technobabble, false assumptions, or false arguments.
   • A works program, in the context of the labor surplus which in the East Wing, as in India, is probably of the order of 25%, is so obvious a necessity that I find myself getting furious at the array of argument, pseudoanalytical or practical, that is thrown up.1971, Walter P. Falcon, Gustav Fritz Papanek, Development policy II--the Pakistan experience, page 193
2. Relying on simplifying assumptions in order to create a less complex alternative to a full analytical approach.
   • We use the method of pseudoanalytical continuation to obtain the characterization of these spaces in terms of polynomial approximations.2016, Alexander Rotkevich, “Constructive description of Hardy-Sobolev spaces in ℂⁿ”, in arXiv
3. Similar to or having the appearance of psychoanalysis.