pseudoacademic

English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ academic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

pseudoacademic (comparative more pseudoacademic, superlative most pseudoacademic)

  1. Apparently, but not actually, academic.
    a pseudoacademic conference
    • 2022 May 20, Elle Reeve, “How White ‘replacement theory’ evolved from elderly racists to teens online to the alleged inspiration for another racist mass homicide”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Through this network, White nationalists produced books and pseudoacademic journals purporting to show White people evolved to have higher IQs and commit less crime than people of color and Jews, who evolved to trick White people into supporting diversity.
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