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SPURIOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spuriousness mean?
• SPURIOUSNESS (noun)
The noun SPURIOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. state of lacking genuineness
Familiarity information: SPURIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
State of lacking genuineness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("spuriousness" is a kind of...):
falseness; falsity (the state of being false or untrue)
Antonym:
genuineness (the state of being genuine)
Derivation:
spurious (false or fake; not what it appears to be)
spurious (plausible but false)
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