hoaxhoʊks
hoax (v)
- present
- hoaxes
- past
- hoaxed
- past participle
- hoaxed
- present participle
- hoaxing
hoax (n)
hoax
hoax
English Definitions:
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on (verb)
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
hoax, pull someone's leg, play a joke on (verb)
subject to a playful hoax or joke
hoax (Noun)
Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
hoax (Verb)
To deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.
Hoax
A hoax is a deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as truth. It is distinguishable from errors in observation or judgment, or rumors, urban legends, pseudosciences or April Fools' Day events that are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes.
Hoax
A hoax is a widely publicized falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied social identities and of the highest possible social pretensions to gull its victims into putting up the highest possible social currency in support of the hoax.Whereas the promoters of frauds, fakes, and scams devise them so that they will withstand the highest degree of scrutiny customary in the affair, hoaxers are confident, justifiably or not, that their representations will receive no scrutiny at all. They have such confidence because their representations belong to a world of notions fundamental to the victims' views of reality, but whose truth and importance they accept without argument or evidence, and so never question. Some hoaxers intend eventually to unmask their representations as in fact a hoax so as to expose their victims as fools; seeking some form of profit, other hoaxers hope to maintain the hoax indefinitely, so that it is only when sceptical persons willing to investigate their claims publish their findings that at last they stand revealed as hoaxers.
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