Pseudogame

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An activity or situation with certain aspects of a game.

    "Like all sporting contests and board games, the pseudogame of talk TV first requires players, willing participants who agree to leave the real world for a while and to enter the play world, abiding by its contrived laws[…]"

Example

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"Like all sporting contests and board games, the pseudogame of talk TV first requires players, willing participants who agree to leave the real world for a while and to enter the play world, abiding by its contrived laws[…]"

Etymology

From pseudo- + game.

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