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The actual term for what is commonly referred to as Preppy, in regard to personal image and style. A contrast to what was and still is/should be considered Preppy (Oxford shirts, sweaters, anything identified as stereotypically Ivy League college). An outfit consisting of a Hollister t-shirt, Abercrombie cap, frayed sandals, and plaid shorts accompanied with large aviator sunglasses. Any outfit that makes the wearer appear a walking billboard or douchebag.
Kevin: Dude, did you see that kid who was all preppy looking back there?
Archimedes: No, no. He wasn't preppy, he was pseudo-preppy.
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n. pseu-do-mex-i-cism
1. To pretend to be Mexican.
2. To suggest or imply you are of Mexican decent when, in fact, you are not.
From the words pseudo (meaning false or counterfeit; fake) and Mexican (meaning a native or inhabitant of Mexico).
Malinowski is of Jewish and Polish origin, therefore if someone of this name was light skinned with blonde hair, claiming to be Mexican would be pseudo-mexicism.
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is when you think you're addicted to something but it's all just in your brain
The theory claims that most addiction e.g. cigarettes belongs to pseudo addiction but not real addiction
"If people are suffering, they need a higher dose"
When you have pseudo addiction, the solution is in front of you: you need a higher dose.
Instead of studying, just sitting there with the appropriate materials present, and doing something irrelevant such as watching TV, listening to music, or procrasterbating.
No dude, I was only pseudo studying. All I managed to do was watch the new episode of How I Met Your Mother, and jerk off like, six times... Not at the same time...
someone who is into spiritual pursuits for purely fashionable or egotistical reasons
that guy is so pseudo-spiritual. he chases woman and brags that his monk says he will become fully enlightened in this lifetime. who would even brag about that?!
Somebody that tries too hard to not be "typical" by saying they like whatever isn't the trend. Usually they listen to post-rock like Mogwai, Sigur Ros, and Interpol. (I like some of those bands too but I don't keep shoving my musical taste at a bunch of n*sync fans to try to feel a false sense of superiority) And they like anything described as "indie"; movies like Ghost World, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, and Whale Rider. If you said those movies were popular(which they pretty much are) they would get pissed. Basically, they're people that miss the point about actually enjoying something cause they're too caught up at trying to look cultured, therefore they are posers.
"After watching Donnie Dark and listening to the new Godspeed You! Black Emperor a millionth time, the pseudo-intellectual sipped java at the "cool" cafe where he talked about how intellectual he was for not liking anything marketed"
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Some crap about "consciousness", "the universe", reality is just an "illusion", and all that other New Age spiritual crap. It is usually practised by people that don't have the intellectual capacity to understand true wisdom found through the study and challenge of Philosophical concepts and ideas. It is basically a blind and dumbed-down belief in more complex and thought out ideologies, but without putting in the work to actually obtain any significant kind of knowledge directly beneficial to the individual or society itself. It is also often used to exploit these stupid people for profitable purposes.
"Have you read the new Deepak Chopra book?"
"Fuck no. That shit is pseudo-wisdom bullshit. I just bought Aristotles Necomacean Ethics."
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