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That’s also the more common usage in my experience, though the -oid suffix (derived from the Greek for “likeness”, cf humanoid/android, spheroid, etc) indicates
by notduncansmith 6y ago
That’s also the more common usage in my experience, though the -oid suffix (derived from the Greek for “likeness”, cf humanoid/android, spheroid, etc) indicates that the other meaning, “something fact-like but necessarily a fact” is more etymologically correct.