pseudoconsensus en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From pseudo- + consensus.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Apparent consensus that is not in fact genuine.
Today, however, the pseudoconsensus of “leave as soon as we are able, stay as long as we must” rests not on a strategy but on its very opposite: a dodge.
2008 January 13, Noah Feldman, “Vanishing Act”, in New York Times: