pseudointellectual

[ soo-doh-in-tl-ek-choo-uhl ]

/ ˌsu doʊˌɪn tlˈɛk tʃu əl /

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noun

a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.

a person who pretends an interest in intellectual matters for reasons of status.

adjective

of, relating to, or characterized by fraudulent intellectuality; unscholarly: a pseudointellectual book.

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Origin of pseudointellectual

First recorded in 1935–40; pseudo- + intellectual

pseu·do·in·tel·lec·tu·al·ly, adverb

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His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.
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