From the coffee table photo book to the bathroom factoid anthology to the bedside escapist novel, American literature is designed to match the furniture.
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Factoid
//ˈfæk.tɔɪd//
Synonyms for "factoid" (3 found)
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Finnish
1 entries- näennäistotuus noun (inaccurate statement believed to be true)
German
1 entries- Faktoid noun (inaccurate statement believed to be true)
Icelandic
1 entries- sannlíki noun (inaccurate statement believed to be true)
Polish
1 entries- faktoid noun (inaccurate statement believed to be true)
Portuguese
1 entries- factoide noun (inaccurate statement believed to be true)
Russian
1 entries- факто́ид noun (inaccurate statement believed to be true)
Spanish
1 entries- factoide noun (inaccurate statement believed to be true)
Swedish
3 entries- faktoid noun (inaccurate statement believed to be true)
- klintbergare noun (inaccurate statement believed to be true)
- vandringssägen noun (inaccurate statement believed to be true)
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Oaks can host more than 500 different kinds of caterpillars—an amazing factoid that I just looked up.
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Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.
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Wikipedia-derived factoids can be so important that there is a well-known feedback loop, called citogenesis, in which the mainstream news finds some claim made in a Wikipedia article, and publishes it (without citing Wikipedia). Then Wikipedia itself makes use of the news article. By means of this loop, an ultimately “sourceless” factoid gains a spurious authority.
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