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pseudo-scholarship

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + scholarship. 19th-century coinage.

  1. derived from σχολή
  2. derived from scholāris
  3. inherited from scōlere — “scholar, learner”
  4. inherited from scolar
  5. formed as scholarship — “scholar + -ship”
  6. prefixed as pseudo-scholarship — “pseudo + scholarship”

Definitions

  1. Any body of publications purported to be scholarly or supported by critical scholarship…

    Any body of publications purported to be scholarly or supported by critical scholarship but which fails to comply with scholarly standards.

    • […] it still remains difficult for university presidents and boards of control to distinguish between pseudoscholarship and real scholarship in the selection of professors (American Medical Association bulletin, 1910, p. 308)

  2. An arrangement that in effect grants a scholarship to a student, without being considered…

    An arrangement that in effect grants a scholarship to a student, without being considered on a par with a real or standard scholarship

    • These jobs, which require students to prove financial need, serve as pseudo-scholarships, enabling some students to afford college. (Greg Gottesman, Daniel Baer, College Survival 7th Ed., Peterson's (2004), p. 212.)

The neighborhood

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