pseudo-discipline
nounEtymology From pseudo- + discipline.
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Alternative Alternative spelling of pseudodiscipline (area of study that has a limited resemblance to an academic discipline)
- Project Cycle Management with its methodological frills had now become another jargon-studded pseudo-discipline which could only be mastered after extensive training.2007, H. J. W. Mutsaers, Peasants, Farmers and Scientists: A Chronicle of Tropical Agricultural Science in the Twentieth Century, page 350:
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A false or ineffective imposition of punishment to maintain control.
- But all this is not worthy of the name of discipline; it is pseudo-discipline as we shall see.1919, Herbert Ellsworth Cory, The Intellectuals and the Wage Workers: A Study in Educational Psychoanalysis, page 244: