pseudotribal

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adjective

Apparently, but not actually, tribal.

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Meanings

adjectivepseudotribal (comparative more pseudotribal, superlative most pseudotribal)

comparative more pseudotribal · superlative most pseudotribal

  1. Apparently, but not actually, tribal.
    1 more example

    Konrad Lorenz […] reminds us of the pseudotribal character of much of the present-day rebellion; and to him the widespread and truly "bizarre distortions of cultural behavior" represent a new "infantilism" and a egression to a primitivity which he considers analogous to a "disturbance of the genetic blueprint."

    1995, Erik H. Erikson, A Way of Looking at Things, page 327

Origin

From pseudo- + tribal.

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APA

pseudotribal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudotribal

MLA

“pseudotribal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudotribal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pseudotribal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudotribal.

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