placebic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Functioning as a placebo.
Example Sentences
- "In the request-only condition, the experimenter said simply 'Excuse me, I have 5 (20) copies. May I use the xerox machine?' In the placebic information condition, this was followed by the phrase 'because I need to make copies'. In the real information condition, the reason offered in support was 'because I am in a rush'."
- "Many millions of dollars are expended on drugs, diagnostic tests, and psychotherapies of a placebic nature."
- "He could invent a fictional restaurant for you to bite your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic."
Etymology
From placebo + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more placebic (comparative)
most placebic (superlative)