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SPECIOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does speciousness mean?
• SPECIOUSNESS (noun)
The noun SPECIOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility
Familiarity information: SPECIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
meretriciousness; speciousness
Context example:
the speciousness of his argument
Hypernyms ("speciousness" is a kind of...):
deceptiveness; obliquity (the quality of being deceptive)
Derivation:
specious (based on pretense; deceptively pleasing)
specious (plausible but false)
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