speciousness

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spe·cious (sp

adj.

1. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.

2. Deceptively attractive.

[Middle English, attractive, from Latin specisus, from specis, appearance; see spek- in Indo-European roots.]

specious·ly adv.

speci·osi·ty (-sh

-t

), specious·ness (-sh

s-n

s) n.

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Noun

speciousness - an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"

meretriciousness

deceptiveness, obliquity - the quality of being deceptive

Translations

speciousness [ˈspiːʃəsnɪs] N → lo especioso

speciousness

n (of argument) → Vordergründigkeit f; (of excuse) → Fadenscheinigkeit f; (of claim) → Unfundiertheit f

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