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Pseudo vs Resemble - What's the difference?

pseudo | resemble |

As a noun pseudo

is an intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.

As an adjective pseudo

is other than what is apparent, a sham.

As a verb resemble is

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pseudo

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
  • A poseur; one who is fake.
  • (travel industry, informal) pseudo-city code
  • (Internet) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.
  • * 2011 , Divina Frau-Meigs, Media Matters in the Cultural Contradictions of the "Information Society" (page 299)
    • Issues such as verifiability (for age declared), anonymity (in spite of pseudos and avatars) and traceability are at stake

    • Related terms

    * pseud - variant

    References

    * The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Other than what is apparent, a sham.
  • Insincere.
  • Spurious.

    • References

    * The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary

    Anagrams

    * ----

    resemble

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive)  To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
  • * Shakespeare
    • We will resemble you in that.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • * 2005 , .
    • But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
    The twins resemble each other.
  • To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
    • And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
  • (obsolete)  To counterfeit; to imitate.
  • * Holland
    • They can so well resemble man's speech.
  • (obsolete)  To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.

    • Synonyms

    * mirror * duplicate * look like