Meanings
- rareuncountableThe condition or state of being fake.
I am a bad music critic – I love music too much to tell the truth about the emotional "fakehood of the art."
1900, The Bookman, volume 11, page 5011 more example
And then the base and cowardly manner in which it has been done bears at once the mark of fakehood on its front.
1921, Ohio Archæological and Historical Quarterly, volume 30, page 419Synonyms: fakeness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe condition or state of being fake.
Origin
From fake + -hood. Possibly also as a blend of fake + falsehood.
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