pseudo-statement
noun
A form of expression that formally resembles statement but does not refer or correspond to objective fact, being rather used for its subjective effect on the hearer or reader; an instance of this.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Ivor Armstrong Richards (1893–1979), literary scholar and educationist.
- psychologistically
- psychologist's fallacy
- psychologists' fallacy
- psychologization
- psychologize
- psychologizer
- psychologue
- psychology
- psycholytic
- psychoma
- psychomachia
- psychomachy
- psychomancy
- psychometer
- psychometric
- psychometrical
- psychometrically
- psychometrician
- psychometrics
- psychometric test
- psychometric testing
- psychometrise
- psychometrist
- psychometrize
- psychometry