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pseudoacademic

pseudoacademic adjective: apparently, but not actually, academic.

Adjective

pseudoacademic (comparative more pseudoacademic, superlative most pseudoacademic)

  1. Apparently, but not actually, academic.
    • a pseudoacademic conference
    • Through this network, White nationalists produced books and pseudoacademic journals purporting to show White people evolved to have higher IQs and commit less crime than people of color and Jews, who evolved to trick White people into supporting diversity.2022 May 20, Elle Reeve, “How White ‘replacement theory’ evolved from elderly racists to teens online to the alleged inspiration for another racist mass homicide”, in CNN

Forms of pseudoacademic

comparativemore pseudoacademic
superlativemost pseudoacademic

Origin of pseudoacademic

From pseudo- + academic.

Questions about pseudoacademic

What does pseudoacademic mean?
Pseudoacademic means apparently, but not actually, academic.
What part of speech is pseudoacademic?
Pseudoacademic is an adjective.

Words near pseudoacademic in the dictionary

  1. pseudoabelian
  2. pseudoabsence
  3. pseudoabsences
  4. pseudoacacia
  5. pseudoacacias
  6. pseudoacademic
  7. pseudoacanthosis
  8. pseudoaccidental
  9. pseudoaccommodative
  10. pseudoachalasia
  11. pseudoachondroplasia

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