Meanings
- not comparableApparently, but not actually, popular.
To us, the final step of Richard's coup, the pseudopopular offer of the crown, looks like a grand display of theatrical fireworks. But to the gullible spectators-within-the play, it is a political bludgeoning.
2004, Catherine M. S. Alexander, Shakespeare and Politics, page 1331 more example
One must especially be alert, moreover, to distinguish popular materials, whether literary or nonliterary, from a kind of “pseudopopular” based on the current marketing of the Renaissance, through star-system phenomena like Kenneth Branagh and theme park-style Renaissance festivals.
1997, Amitava Kumar, Class Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Public Sphere, page 70
Origin
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pseudopopular. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudopopular
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