argumentum ad ignorantiam
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Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
8
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fallacious argument asserting that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false, or vice versa.
Etymology
From Latin [Term?].
Origin
- Source language: Latin