pseudofact

Etymology

From pseudo- + fact.

pseudofact means something that seems to be a fact, but is not. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

Something that seems to be a fact, but is not“The film complicates matters by casting Christine Hebert (a sometime underground filmmaker in her own right) as Pizzorno, with Moullet playing himself, thereby juxtaposing pseudofiction with pseudofact in a way that undermines the rhetorical strategies of both, leaving only a sweet, tragicomic pathos as residue.”