Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • False; not true in opinion.
  • noun A false but common opinion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not true in opinion or doctrine; false.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not true in opinion or doctrine; false.
  • noun A false opinion or doctrine.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek false opinion.

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Examples

  • The counterpart of _paradox_, the isolated opinion of one or of few, is the general opinion held by all the rest; and the counterpart of false and absurd paradox is what is called the "vulgar error," the _pseudodox_.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

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