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pseudolisten

verb

Etymology

From pseudo- + listen.

  1. derived from *ḱlew-✻ — “to hear”
  2. inherited from *hlusēną✻
  3. inherited from *hlusnijaną✻
  4. inherited from hlysnan — “to listen”
  5. inherited from listenen
  6. prefixed as pseudolisten — “pseudo + listen”

Definitions

  1. To pretend to listen

    To pretend to listen; to feign attention to what is being said.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudolisten. 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