Definition of
Factoid
- (noun, communication) a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item
- (noun, communication) something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print
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Alternate forms of Factoid
Hypernyms: info, information, news item
Origin of the word Factoid
- 1973, from fact + -oid, first explained, if not coined, by Norman Mailer.
"Factoids ... that is, facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority." [N. Mailer, "Marilyn," 1973]
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