单词 | myth-information |
释义 | myth-informationn. Chiefly North American. Information which is widely held to be true but which is in fact flawed or unsubstantiated; common knowledge based on hearsay rather than fact. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > [noun] > misinformation misinformation1587 bum steer1898 urban legend1931 myth-information1966 1966 Science 13 May 880 I feel that..we may be blithely proceeding on the basis of some untested assumptions and ‘myth-information’. 1979 WomenWise (Nexis) 30 June 1 It doesn't take much looking to find a wealth of myth-information..about women and their (our) reproductivity. 1988 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 4 Dec. 19 Toxoplasmosis, although widespread and potentially serious, is buried in mounds of ‘myth-information’. 2001 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 22 Mar. s12 Another piece of myth-information is people need to take vitamins and mineral supplements. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1966 |
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