It's hard to define this word. Basically a pseudo-intellectual is originally an average person who have the ability to absorb information but unable to do anything with it.
A pseudo-intellectual isn't exactly dumb, but he/she certainly isn't on par with a truly intelligent person.
A truly intelligent person understands "pattern", he doesn't need to read the newspaper on a daily basis to know what's happening around the globe, but rather he can accurately predict what would happen in a period of time. (This is exactly how people like Darwin was able to come up with Evolution, things come in pattern).
Characteristics of a pseudo-intellectual:
- Bragging about what college he is going to without giving a good legitimate reason. (Someone went to Cornell just to get a teaching degree)
- Using big words and foreign words in his/her writing or daily language in an un-necessary amount. (Someone who describes himself as a proponent of "independent citizens' movement")
- Inclined to join an Extremist Political Faction (Both right & left)
- See my 2nd point, except he/she lists a LARGE amount of bands/books/quotes in his biographies on his/her Facebook page.
- Being a Grammar Nazi (because they are too snobby and profound to understand what you've said when you left out the 's' at the end of a plural noun).
- Name is more important than inner quality (e.g. someone who claims Einstein as the Greatest scientist ever lived but doesn't know what he did.)
A pseudo-intellectual isn't exactly dumb, but he/she certainly isn't on par with a truly intelligent person.
A truly intelligent person understands "pattern", he doesn't need to read the newspaper on a daily basis to know what's happening around the globe, but rather he can accurately predict what would happen in a period of time. (This is exactly how people like Darwin was able to come up with Evolution, things come in pattern).
Characteristics of a pseudo-intellectual:
- Bragging about what college he is going to without giving a good legitimate reason. (Someone went to Cornell just to get a teaching degree)
- Using big words and foreign words in his/her writing or daily language in an un-necessary amount. (Someone who describes himself as a proponent of "independent citizens' movement")
- Inclined to join an Extremist Political Faction (Both right & left)
- See my 2nd point, except he/she lists a LARGE amount of bands/books/quotes in his biographies on his/her Facebook page.
- Being a Grammar Nazi (because they are too snobby and profound to understand what you've said when you left out the 's' at the end of a plural noun).
- Name is more important than inner quality (e.g. someone who claims Einstein as the Greatest scientist ever lived but doesn't know what he did.)
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People who constantly refer to cracked.com as the source of their references, opinions, beliefs, or information. Usually accompanied with a tone of undeserved superiority.
People who constantly refer to cracked.com as the source of their references, opinions, beliefs, or information. Usually accompanied with a tone of undeserved superiority.
"How do you know that?"
"You'd know it too if you read cracked.com. I'm probably the first person who ever discovered cracked.com and started reading it. I'm also probably their biggest fan."
"Oh, I see, you're a pseudo-intellectual."
"You'd know it too if you read cracked.com. I'm probably the first person who ever discovered cracked.com and started reading it. I'm also probably their biggest fan."
"Oh, I see, you're a pseudo-intellectual."
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When someone is sexually attracted to others because they are smarter, more talented, or better all-around.
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Guy 1: Hey dude! How was that class debate?
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Guy 2: It was freaking awesome. It was pure intellectual Masturbation.
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Ryan: what was the name of your last boyfriend again?
Lilia: Oh, Vincent? He was SUCH an incel. INSANELY ugly too.
Lilia: Oh, Vincent? He was SUCH an incel. INSANELY ugly too.
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Get the incel mug.IncelTears, or IT for short, is an anti-incel subreddit. They basically post screenshots from other incel forums and either 1. mock them 2. bully them or 3. false-flag.
The majority of their screenshots are usually fabricated too.
The irony is that the majority of the users on that subreddit are incels themselves.
A male r/Inceltears user, typically fits the "soyboy" archetype and is either a virgin, "but not an Incel" or a low-tier normie who thinks he's a Chad because he had sex once or married some washed up whore.
It's a "watchdog" sub that soys/cucks/bugmen/numales use to protect m'lady from evil incels!
The majority of their screenshots are usually fabricated too.
The irony is that the majority of the users on that subreddit are incels themselves.
A male r/Inceltears user, typically fits the "soyboy" archetype and is either a virgin, "but not an Incel" or a low-tier normie who thinks he's a Chad because he had sex once or married some washed up whore.
It's a "watchdog" sub that soys/cucks/bugmen/numales use to protect m'lady from evil incels!
IncelTears user: "Me? Incel? Haha omg no way. I am a virgin and do have problems with women, sure, but christ guys I'm not incel cmon... hehe... "
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