• n. 仿真陳述（僅因出現(xiàn)在出版物上而被信以為真）
• adj. 虛構(gòu)的；似是而非的

fact, 事實(shí)。-oid, 類。

factoid (n.)

1973, "published statement taken to be a fact because of its appearance in print," 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. [Mailer, "Marilyn," 1973]

By 1988 it was being used in the sense of "small, isolated bit of true factual information."

1. Here's a pop factoid for you.

告訴你一個(gè)廣為流傳的趣聞。

來自《權(quán)威詞典》