webidence

English

Etymology

Blend of Web +‎ evidence

Noun

webidence (uncountable)

  1. Evidence (or ostensible evidence) for something, found on the World Wide Web.
    • 2000, BMJ: British Medical Journal, page 239:
      Webidence is scientific (type 1) and pseudo-scientific (type 2) medical advice and opinion posted on a website.
    • 2015, Corpus Linguistics and the Web, page 36:
      In light of these pitfalls we need 'Standards of Webidence' to guide the selection and documentation of online language for linguistic research.
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