unsinkable rubber duck
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A belief in a supernatural or paranormal phenomenon that people continue to hold, in spite of it being debunked.
Example Sentences
- "Indeed, even if they are thoroughly examined and refuted in one age, they seem to reemerge within the next, and people will continue to believe them in spite of evidence to the contrary. This is what I have called the “unsinkable rubber duck” syndrome."
- "As a self-proclaimed “spokesman for rationality,” The Skeptical Inquirer documented every major gaffe made by Jeane Dixon (“the unsinkable rubber duck of prophecy”) and took special pleasure debunking SRI's Geller experiments."
- "John, this is an unsinkable rubber duck. They're all unsinkable rubber ducks. There's no way we're going to get rid of them, because people don't listen."