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pseudotribal

pseudotribal adjective: apparently, but not actually, tribal.

Adjective

pseudotribal (comparative more pseudotribal, superlative most pseudotribal)

  1. Apparently, but not actually, tribal.
    • Konrad Lorenz […] reminds us of the pseudotribal character of much of the present-day rebellion; and to him the widespread and truly "bizarre distortions of cultural behavior" represent a new "infantilism" and a egression to a primitivity which he considers analogous to a "disturbance of the...1995, Erik H. Erikson, A Way of Looking at Things, page 327

Forms of pseudotribal

comparativemore pseudotribal
superlativemost pseudotribal

Origin of pseudotribal

From pseudo- + tribal.

Questions about pseudotribal

What does pseudotribal mean?
Pseudotribal means apparently, but not actually, tribal.
What part of speech is pseudotribal?
Pseudotribal is an adjective.

Words near pseudotribal in the dictionary

  1. pseudotrials
  2. pseudotriangle
  3. pseudotriangles
  4. pseudotriangulation
  5. pseudotriangulations
  6. pseudotribal
  7. pseudotrichome
  8. pseudotrichomes
  9. pseudotrichonotid
  10. pseudotrichonotids
  11. pseudotrimer

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