What is psuedo?

Pseudo- is a prefix used in English language to indicate something false or fake. It comes from Greek and means "false" or "deceitful". The prefix is commonly used to form words such as pseudo-scientific, pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-classical, and pseudo-psychology, which describe things that have a superficial resemblance or imitation of something but lack the substance or authenticity of that thing. Pseudo also used in computer science and mathematics to refer to virtual or simulated representations of objects or systems. For example, a pseudo-random number generator is a program that generates a sequence of numbers that appears random but is actually generated according to a specific algorithm.