uninformation
English edit
Etymology edit
From un- (“not”) + information.
Noun edit
uninformation (uncountable)
- Unwanted, useless, needless, or untrue information; misinformation
- 1994, A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch, Beyond Preservation: Restoring and Inventing Landscapes:
- Just as difficult a question as whether nature is at an end, and culture a confusing and relentless mess of distracting uninformation, is whether rituals of any kind can be reinvested with significance and genuine function.
- 2010, Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience:
- The GLF provided the hotbed for the system of uninformation and the culture of deception to flourish.
- 2012, Joel Katz, Designing Information:
- Uninformation is stuff that isn't necessarily important and that probably isn't untrue.