Pseudoair
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An artificially created gas that mimics air. uncountable
"[…] in which the air or pseudoair is thick and viscous; in which the only substance common to both sets of dimensions and thus available for combat purposes is a synthetic material so treated and so saturated as to be of enormous mass and inertia."
- 2 A false appearance or seeming. uncountable
"That is to say, he talks a man's language without any of the pseudoair of condescension that confuses the non-articulate."
Example
More examples"[…] in which the air or pseudoair is thick and viscous; in which the only substance common to both sets of dimensions and thus available for combat purposes is a synthetic material so treated and so saturated as to be of enormous mass and inertia."
Etymology
From pseudo- + air.
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