Etymograph

English

fraudience

Blend of fraud + audience.

A blend of fraud + audience

Latin fraus ‘deceit’

Old French fraude

Middle English fraude ‘deceptiveness’

English fraud

Proto-Italic *awizdiō ‘to hear’

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Latin audientia ‘act of hearing; attention’

Old French audience

Middle French audience

Middle English audience

English audience

Today it means

noun Audiences on infomercials who, although supposedly unbiased and uninformed about the product, are in fact paid to cheer, gasp, and exclaim their joy and wonder about the product in question on cue.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fraudience