Pseudoacademic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Apparently, but not actually, academic.

    "a pseudoacademic conference"

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From pseudo- + academic.

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