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webidence

noun

Etymology

Blend of Web + evidence.

  1. derived from evidentia
  2. inherited from evidence
  3. compounded as webidence — “Web + evidence”

Definitions

  1. Evidence (or ostensible evidence) for something, found on the World Wide Web.

    • Webidence is scientific (type 1) and pseudo-scientific (type 2) medical advice and opinion posted on a website.
    • In light of these pitfalls we need 'Standards of Webidence' to guide the selection and documentation of online language for linguistic research.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for webidence. 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