pseudofact
pseudofact noun: something that seems to be a fact, but is not.
Noun
pseudofact (plural pseudofacts)
- Something that seems to be a fact, but is not
- The film complicates matters by casting Christine Hebert (a sometime underground filmmaker in her own right) as Pizzorno, with Moullet playing himself, thereby juxtaposing pseudofiction with pseudofact in a way that undermines the rhetorical strategies of both, leaving only a sweet, tragicomic...1988 February 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Form Counts”, in Chicago Reader
- It is argued that the conclusion of previous research efforts that class voting in Canada is virtually nonexistent is a pseudofact stemming from theoretical and methodological problems.1981, United States Political Science Documents, page 311
Forms of pseudofact
| plural | pseudofacts |
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Origin of pseudofact
From pseudo- + fact.
Questions about pseudofact
- What does pseudofact mean?
- Pseudofact means something that seems to be a fact, but is not.
- What part of speech is pseudofact?
- Pseudofact is a noun.
- What is the plural of pseudofact?
- The plural of pseudofact is pseudofacts.
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