Pseudofact

A pseudofact is a piece of information that, despite being completely false, is far more interesting than the equivalent correct information. Because pseudofacts are more interesting, they are more likely to get repeated. This results in people who believe them because it's what their friends and family has always told them. This belief is often strong enough to ward off solid evidence of the contrary.

Priest: Masturbation will make you go blind.
John: That's a pseudofact. I've been doing it for years, and I can see just fine.

Doctor: You should drink eight, eight-ounce glasses of water a day.
Patient: Bull, that's a pseudofact. We get almost all the water we need in the food we eat.

Kristen: That moon has phases because it's partially behind the earth's shadow. That's what my teacher taught me.
Eric: No, that's a pseudofact. The moon has phases because of the angle between it, us, and the sun.

Republican: Obama's health care bill will create Death Panels.
Democrat: That's a pseudofact. The bill would just pay for discussions with doctors about things like living wills.

Any urban legend is a pseudofact.

by Mythological Beast November 7, 2009

Pseudonym

·A word you think only means username thanks to Urban Dictionary(it's not far off from the truth or part of it)
· A nickname commonly used by authors(like a pen name) to hide ones true identity

· Enter pseudonym here
· Dr. Seuss uses a pseudonym

by Scuffed Dictionary March 18, 2017

pseudonym

your urban-dictionary user name

My pseudonym is hardboi69.

by hardboi69 October 24, 2018

pseudohypoparathyroidism

Pseudohypoparathyroidism is a genetic disorder that resembles hypoparathyroidism (lowered levels of parathyroid hormone), but is caused by a lack of response to parathyroid hormone rather than having too little of the hormone itself.

he is suffering with the illness pseudohypoparathyroidism

by Stefan Mydzyn October 30, 2007

pseudonym

Something that Urban Dictionary asks you for when you publish a word to the site. Something that the average human being would not know the definition to.

Your pseudonym: ____________

by imwideawake August 16, 2012

pseudomy

When the catcher is reluctant for back door action, he/she grasps pitcher's helmet between the buttocks and strokes pitcher's shaft until the pitcher spackles catcher's crack with spooge.

Mary won't let me in the mud hole but she is good for some pseudomy.

by ruralisto February 3, 2010

pseudologist

Someone skilled in the art of using "fake logic" to appear to give sound reasoning about something although half-baked in their actual conception of the idea, usually influenced by whimsical feelings rather than true rational thought.

Also someone who confuses fact with opinion and then diplomatically spreads their "perverted message" to others like a virus, or a meme as Plato called it.

That pseudologist convinced me that god exists.

by WhiteKnight82 June 14, 2009