fakeable

English

Alternative forms

• fakable

Etymology

fake +‎ -able.

Adjective

fakeable (comparative more fakeable, superlative most fakeable)

1. Capable of being faked.
   • 1993, W. James Popham, Educational Evaluation, Allyn & Bacon, page 158:

     But, if such niceties still lead us to believe that the inventory to be used is fakeable, then it makes good sense to use the more fakeable instruments after using those we think are less fakeable.

   • 2003, Lauren Jill Ramsay, Score Inflation on Biodata and Situational Judgment Inventory Items: A College Admissions Quandary, page 56:

     The judges viewed biodata items as more fakeable than SJI items.

   • 2011, Rikke Bendlin et al., “Lower and Upper Bounds for Deniable Public-Key Encryption”, in Dong Hoon Lee, Xiaoyun Wang, editors, Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2011: 17th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, page 131:

     The idea behind having two different schemes is to use the fakeable scheme to encrypt a message $m$ on which the parties would like to have deniability.

Antonyms

• unfakeable