granfalloon
发音
US
/ˌɡɹæn.fəˈluːn/
其它
词形变化
granfalloons
复数
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释义与例句
n.
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1.
A group of two or more people who imagine or are manipulated to believe they share a connection based on some circumstance of little or no real significance.
词源
Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in 1963, in the novel Cat's Cradle, in which Vonnegut described the term as referencing a false karass, or "a proud and meaningless association of human beings"; later adopted by market researchers and social scientists.
来源：wiktionary