pseudolinguistic

Meaning

Adjective

• pertaining to pseudo-linguistics. Deprecating of scholarship thought to purport to be linguistic but falling short of the necessary standards
• quasilinguistic. Having some qualities similar to language, but not quite amounting to language in the narrow sense.
• Relating to pseudolanguage.

Origin

• pseudo- + linguistic.
• In use in sense (1.) from the early 20th century.