Mendaciarium
English
[edit | edit source]Noun
[edit | edit source]Etymology
[edit | edit source]From Latin mendax mendac- “lying, deceitful, false,” source of English mendacity, + -arium, a suffix used for physical places, repositories, or enclosures.
Definition
[edit | edit source]- An collection of or conceptual room of falsehoods, lies, myths, misinformation, and confidently repeated errors.
- By gathering so many commonly accepted fallacies into a single volume, Tom Burnam's The Dictionary of Misinformation serves as a meticulously cataloged mendaciarium, opening the door to a conceptual room filled with history's most confidently repeated errors.
- A figurative repository of mendacity; a place, real or imagined, where durable untruths are gathered, preserved, or displayed.