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pseud
1[ sood ]
noun
- a person of fatuously earnest intellectual, artistic, or social pretensions.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a pseud.
pseud-
2- variant of pseudo- before a vowel:
pseudepigraphy.
pseud.
3abbreviation for
pseud.
2abbreviation for
- pseudonym
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pseud1
First recorded in 1950–55; by shortening of pseudointellectual or parallel compounds with pseudo-
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Example Sentences
There is a perpetual confusing of actual ideas with what are nothing but pseud-ideas.
From Project Gutenberg
Mutatis mutandis this definition will apply to aggressive (pseud-episematic) resemblance.
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In 734 synaposematic colouring the warning is genuine, in pseud-aposematic it is a sham.
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