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pseudo-controversies

pseudo-controversies is the plural of pseudo-controversy.

Meaning of pseudo-controversy

Noun

pseudo-controversy (plural pseudo-controversies)

  1. Something falsely presented as a controversy.
    • gradualism: The doctrine that evolutionary change is gradual and does not go in jumps. In modern palaeontology it is the subject of an interesting controversy over whether the gaps in the fossil record are artefactual or real (see Chapter 6). Journalists have blown this up into a pseudo-controversy...1982, Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype

Questions about pseudo-controversies

What is pseudo-controversies the plural of?
Pseudo-controversies is the plural of pseudo-controversy.

Words near pseudo-controversies in the dictionary

  1. pseudo-compliment
  2. pseudo-compliments
  3. pseudo-conscience
  4. pseudo-consciences
  5. pseudo-conscious
  6. pseudo-controversies
  7. pseudo-controversy
  8. pseudo-coordination
  9. pseudo-copolymer
  10. pseudo-copolymers
  11. pseudo-counterexample

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