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pseudo-discipline

pseudo-discipline noun: a false or ineffective imposition of punishment to maintain control. Also the alternative spelling of pseudodiscipline.

Noun

pseudo-discipline (plural pseudo-disciplines)

  1. A false or ineffective imposition of punishment to maintain control.
    • But all this is not worthy of the name of discipline; it is pseudo-discipline as we shall see.1919, Herbert Ellsworth Cory, The Intellectuals and the Wage Workers: A Study in Educational Psychoanalysis, page 244

Also used as

pseudo-discipline is also the alternative spelling of pseudodiscipline.

Forms of pseudo-discipline

pluralpseudo-disciplines

Origin of pseudo-discipline

From pseudo- + discipline.

Questions about pseudo-discipline

What does pseudo-discipline mean?
Pseudo-discipline means a false or ineffective imposition of punishment to maintain control.
What part of speech is pseudo-discipline?
Pseudo-discipline is a noun.
What is the plural of pseudo-discipline?
The plural of pseudo-discipline is pseudo-disciplines.

Words near pseudo-discipline in the dictionary

  1. pseudo-Cushing's syndrome
  2. pseudo-democracy
  3. Pseudo-Dionysian
  4. pseudo-directories
  5. pseudo-directory
  6. pseudo-discipline
  7. pseudo-disciplines
  8. pseudo-edge
  9. pseudo-edges
  10. pseudo-election
  11. pseudo-empathy

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