Meanings
- uncountableUnwanted, useless, needless, or untrue information; misinformation
Uninformation is stuff that isn't necessarily important and that probably isn't untrue.
2012, Joel Katz, Designing Information1 more example
Just as difficult a question as whether nature is at an end, and culture a confusing and relentless mess of distracting uninformation, is whether rituals of any kind can be reinvested with significance and genuine function.
1994, A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch, Beyond Preservation: Restoring and Inventing Landscapes
Origin
From un- (“not”) + information.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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