Difference between Pseudo and Fraud

What is the difference between Pseudo and Fraud?

Pseudo as a noun is an intellectually pretentious person; a poseur; false, fake while Fraud as a noun is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

Pseudo

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur; false, fake

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: being other than what is apparent, a sham insincere spurious

Fraud

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive endOne who performs any such trick.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To defraud

Example sentence: The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

We hope you now know whether to use Pseudo or Fraud in your sentence.

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