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terminological inexactitude

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English

Syllables
ter-mi-no-log-i-cal inex-ac-ti-tude
IPA
41
Scrabble Score
26
Letters
9
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A lie; falsehood.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Coined by Winston Churchill campaigning in the 1906 election, and repeated by him in the parliament, : The conditions of the Transvaal ordinance ... cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. — in the parliament 22 February 1906 (quoted in Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century, 1984) This first usage has only the literal sense of inaccurate terminology, but it was almost immediately taken up as a euphemism meaning an outright lie.

Usage

Inflected Forms

terminological inexactitudes (plural)

Phrases

alternative fact

Frequently Paired Words

alternative fact

Synonyms

alternative fact anti-fact invention bluff bollocks bullshit canard cap chin clanker contradiction cram

Questions

What does terminological inexactitude mean?
A lie; falsehood.
Where does terminological inexactitude come from?
Coined by Winston Churchill campaigning in the 1906 election, and repeated by him in the parliament, : The conditions of the Transvaal ordinance ... cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. — in the parliament 22 February 1906 (quoted in Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century, 1984) This first usage has only the literal sense of inaccurate terminology, but it was almost immediately taken up as a euphemism meaning an outright lie.

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