A word in a language other than English that has an English appearance but is not current in English itself. This may be, for example, because the word was borrowed from a neologism that never entered English common use, or because it was independently derived from an English word, or because it was deliberately coined to resemble English.

Alternative spelling of pseudoscience

plural of pseudo-cereal (alternative spelling of pseudocereals).

Of or pertaining to a pseudonym. / (of a name) Fictitious. / That uses a pseudonym. / (computing, law) Pertaining to pseudonymization.

Writings falsely ascribed to famous persons (historical or mythical) to lend them greater legitimacy. They were typically composed many centuries after the ostensible author had died.

Affecting an air of sophistication; pretentious.

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

(pathology) A bony, flexible structure, resembling a joint, sometimes found after a poorly united fracture / (surgery) A failed fusion after an arthrodesis surgery

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