factoid

n. (仅因出现在出版物上而被信以为真的) 仿真陈述

发音

其它 /ˈfæk.tɔɪd/

词形变化

factoids 复数 factoids

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media.

  2. 2.

    An interesting item of trivia; a minor fact.

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词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

information info news item

词源

From fact + -oid (“similar, but not the same”); coined by American writer Norman Mailer in 1973 in Marilyn: A Biography, defined as "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority".

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