Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pseudocolonization

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pseu-do-col-o-niza-tion
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something which resembles or appears to be colonization (in various senses), but is really not.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"We have been working for the past 18 years on a taxonomic revision of the ants of Puerto Rico, and this fact has enabled us to avoid erroneously recording extinctions and colonizations because of misidenti®cations. Species misidentifications could result in pseudoextinctions and pseudocolonization, while the number of species does not change (in perfect agreement with the MacArthur and Wilson model)."
"She [Gloria Anzaldúa] notes that "North Americans call this return to the homeland the silent invasion," but she begins with the pseudocolonization of Mexico by the United States: […]"

Etymology

From pseudo- + colonization.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pseudo

Usage

Inflected Forms

pseudocolonizations (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

pseudocolonial pseudocolonialism pseudocolony

Questions

What does pseudocolonization mean?: Something which resembles or appears to be colonization (in various senses), but is really not.
Where does pseudocolonization come from?: From pseudo- + colonization.

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