Contextualizebeta

fakeitude

noun

Etymology

From fake + -itude.

  1. derived from *fegōn✻ — “to clean up, polish”
  2. derived from fegōn
  3. derived from vēgen
  4. derived from fegen
  5. suffixed as fakeitude — “fake + -itude”

Definitions

  1. The state of being fake

    The state of being fake; fakeness.

    • As for "esquivalience"’s excesses, McKean made no apologies. "Its inherent fakeitude is fairly obvious," she said. "We wanted something highly improbable. We were trying to make a word that could not arise in nature."
    • Apparently, I was the only one on the track who saw through Lexy's fakeitude, because everyone else was nodding cheerfully.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fakeitude. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA