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pseudorevolution

pseudorevolution noun: a political event resembling, but not actually, a revolution.

Noun

pseudorevolution (countable and uncountable, plural pseudorevolutions)

  1. A political event resembling, but not actually, a revolution.
    • Never mind if it takes three weeks to ship oil to China and three days to the United States: Chávez wants to parlay his petrorevenue and pseudorevolution into a global anti-American role.2007 December 3, Roger Cohen, “The Limits of 21st-Century Revolution”, in New York Times

Forms of pseudorevolution

pluralpseudorevolutions

Origin of pseudorevolution

From pseudo- + revolution.

Questions about pseudorevolution

What does pseudorevolution mean?
Pseudorevolution means a political event resembling, but not actually, a revolution.
What part of speech is pseudorevolution?
Pseudorevolution is a noun.
What is the plural of pseudorevolution?
The plural of pseudorevolution is pseudorevolutions.

Words near pseudorevolution in the dictionary

  1. pseudoreversible
  2. pseudoreversion
  3. pseudoreversions
  4. pseudorevertant
  5. pseudorevertants
  6. pseudorevolution
  7. pseudorevolutionaries
  8. pseudorevolutionary
  9. pseudorevolutions
  10. pseudorhabdite
  11. pseudorhabdites

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