Meanings
- uncountableSomething which appears to be traditionalism (adherence to traditional views or practices), but is not.
Every few decades, it seems, America is fated to endure a new spasm of pseudotraditionalism, with women encouraged to seek shelter from a brutal world in homemaking.
2025 August 12, Michelle Goldberg, “A Right-Wing Influencer Tried to Be a Tradwife. It Almost Broke Her.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 20251 more example
More important, as even a brief overview of his impressive oeuvre would immediately reveal, he promoted an extraordinary variety of architecture and a versatility in modes of design that encompass high modernism with direct functionalism, art nouveau and art deco, Nordic romanticism, neo-brutalism, pseudotraditionalism, and traditional Japanese residential and teahouse architectures.
1996, Botond Bognar, Togo Murano: Master Architect of Japan, New York, N.Y.: Rizzoli International Publications, →ISBN, page 26
Origin
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