factoid

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media.
    — Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.
  2. An interesting item of trivia; a minor fact. US
    — Given a large enough storehouse of words and a fine filter, would it be possible to see cultural change at the micro level, to follow minute fluctuations in human thought processes and activities? Tiny factoids, multiplied endlessly, might assume imposing dimensions.

词形变化

factoids plural

词汇关系

衍生词
facturd
相关词
verisimilitude

词源

From fact + -oid (“similar, but not the same”); coined by American writer Norman Mailer in 1973 in Marilyn: A Biography, defined as "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority".
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