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pseudo-acronym

noun
/s(j)uː.dəʊˈæk.ɹə.nɪm/UK/su.doʊˈæk.ɹə.nɪm/US

Etymology

From pseudo- + acronym.

  1. derived from ἄκρον
  2. borrowed from Akronym
  3. prefixed as pseudo-acronym — “pseudo + acronym”

Definitions

  1. A term that is seemingly an acronym or (broadly) an initialism but does not stand for…

    A term that is seemingly an acronym or (broadly) an initialism but does not stand for anything.

    • Near-synonyms: orphan acronym, orphan initialism

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudo-acronym. 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