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Pseudepigraphy

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pseudepigraphanounWritings falsely ascribed to famous persons (historical or mythical) to lend them greater legitimacy, typically composed many centuries after the ostensible author's death.
pseudepigraphnounA text that is attributed with a false author.
pseudographynounFalse writing; forgery.
pseudismnounAlternative form of pseudoism. [intellectual spuriousness or artificiality]
pseudographnoun(graph theory) A graph that may contain loops as well as multiple edges between vertices
pseudohistorynoun(derogatory) False history.
pseudoismnounintellectual spuriousness or artificiality
pseudodoxnounA false opinion or doctrine.
pseudoscholarshipnounAlternative form of pseudo-scholarship. [(uncountable) Any body of publications purported to be scholarly or supported by critical scholarship but which fails to comply with scholarly standards.]
psephismanoun(Ancient Greece) A psephism.
pseudoclassicFalsely classic.
apocryphanounSomething, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority (formerly also used attributively).
pseuderynounThe behaviour of a pseud; intellectual pretension.
pseudonymynounThe use of a pseudonym.
pseudolinguisticsnounAlternative form of pseudo-linguistics. [Work purporting to fall under the scholarly field of linguistics but falling short of its standards; linguistic pseudo-scholarship.]
bibliopegianoun(rare) bibliopegy
pseudojournalnounAn ingenuine journal, especially a pseudoscientific journal.
pseudopsychopathynoun(psychiatry) A feigned psychopathy
pseudo-philosophynounAlternative form of pseudophilosophy. [(chiefly derogatory) Fake or very bad philosophy.]
pseudo-historynounAlternative spelling of pseudohistory. [(derogatory) False history.]

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