speciousness

Noun

Meaning

an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

meretriciousness cant lie fraud deception fallacy evasion deceit delusion hypocrisy pretense falsity perversion dishonesty duplicity

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Antonyms

fidelity faith accuracy confidence allegiance authenticity

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Hypernyms

obliquity deceptiveness

Examples

The dishonesty and speciousness of the feminist rape analysis are demonstrated by its failure to explore, or even mention, man-on-man sex crimes. Camille Paglia

the speciousness of his argument Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

specious present specious reasoning speciously specism specist speck