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pseudo-controversy

pseudo-controversy noun: something falsely presented as a 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

Forms of pseudo-controversy

pluralpseudo-controversies

Origin of pseudo-controversy

From pseudo- + controversy.

Questions about pseudo-controversy

What does pseudo-controversy mean?
Pseudo-controversy means something falsely presented as a controversy.
What part of speech is pseudo-controversy?
Pseudo-controversy is a noun.
What is the plural of pseudo-controversy?
The plural of pseudo-controversy is pseudo-controversies.

Words near pseudo-controversy in the dictionary

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

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