English Explanatory Dictionary

pseudo-linguistics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Work purporting to fall under the scholarly field of linguistics but falling short of its standards; linguistic pseudo-scholarship.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

pseudo-linguistics pseudolinguistics

Etymology

From pseudo- + linguistics. First attested 1962 (OED). Modelled on the earlier adjective pseudolinguistic (as in "pseudolinguistic science", attested 1915).

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