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pseudo-disciplines

pseudo-disciplines is the plural of pseudo-discipline.

Meaning of pseudo-discipline

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

Questions about pseudo-disciplines

What is pseudo-disciplines the plural of?
Pseudo-disciplines is the plural of pseudo-discipline.

Words near pseudo-disciplines in the dictionary

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

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