fakehood
English edit
Etymology edit
From fake + -hood. Possibly also as a blend of fake + falsehood.
Noun edit
fakehood (uncountable)
- (rare) The condition or state of being fake.
- Synonym: fakeness
- 1900, The Bookman, volume 11, page 501:
- I am a bad music critic – I love music too much to tell the truth about the emotional "fakehood of the art."
- 1921, Ohio Archæological and Historical Quarterly, volume 30, page 419:
- And then the base and cowardly manner in which it has been done bears at once the mark of fakehood on its front.