Hearsay has 3 different meanings across 2 categories:
Noun
· Adjective
Noun
1
gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
2
Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.
Adjective
1
heard through another rather than directly
"hearsay information"
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