pseudostatement

noun

pseu·​do·​statement

¦sü(ˌ)dō+

1

: a statement that cannot be empirically verified

especially : a statement made in a poem

2

: a sentence that is grammatically correct yet fails to express a total sense (as in the sentence "the true is more identical than the beautiful")

Word History

Etymology

pseud- + statement

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