plural of Psyche knot

(transitive, informal) To outsmart. / (transitive, informal) To unnerve.

Affecting an air of sophistication; pretentious.

(mathematics) The connection between vertices in a pseudo-Hamiltonian-connected graph.

(idiomatic) A mentally manipulative approach to warfare involving use of techniques to demoralize or intimidate someone into surrender.

Work purporting to fall under the scholarly field of linguistics but falling short of its standards; linguistic pseudo-scholarship.

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

(differential geometry) A generalization of a Riemannian manifold

plural of pseudo-Riemannian manifold

(psychology) A branch of psychology with the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.