speciousness
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9.4
- noun
- /ˈspiːʃəsnəs/
- Formal
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falsedad
- Despite the speciousness of the argument he presented, some people still found it convincing.
Examples
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I could go on and on picking apart the speciousness, sentence by sentence, but the main problem with your position is that you have none.
Blog text (11) -
For Tlingits, the speciousness behind claims of possession and sale of Tlingit territory is a historical truth and not merely a revised version of history.
Academic text (2009) -
But what I'm sure of is the speciousness of telling people that they are akin to all the other people in that geographic region by virtue of where they choose to live.
Blog text (24) -
Also, your argument takes on an air of speciousness when you compare non-insurance-provided health care to government-provided health insurance, conveniently overlooking the costs of private health insurance.
Blog text (27) -
The speciousness of his explanation became clear when the evidence was presented.
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Many people were swayed by the speciousness of the politician's promises during the campaign.
Synonyms
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6.1
A false claim or action to hide the truth
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7.4
Actions that hide the truth by making things look better
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9.8
Use of clever but false arguments to trick people
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4.3
A trick that makes something look like real magic
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7.9
A statement or idea that is not true
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6.8
A thing or action made to trick people into thinking it is real
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8.3
The way something appears to be true even when it is not
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5.8
A way of speaking or acting that is not true
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9.6
Talk that tries to trick people with false statements
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7.2
A quality that makes something seem true when it is false
Appearing to be true or real but not always so
The quality of making people believe something that is not true
The state of being not real or true
The state of being fake and trying to trick people
A quality of being fake and made to seem real
A quality of being made up and not real that people sometimes use to trick others
Hard to find or understand because it seems not real
Antonyms
How True
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Speciousness comes from the Latin root spec- meaning 'to look', the same root you see in familiar words like spectacle and inspect. So a 'specious' idea 'looks' true or attractive on the surface but is actually false, and speciousness is the quality of that misleading appearance.