deceptiveness
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de·cep·tive
(dĭ-sĕp′tĭv)adj.
Deceiving or tending to deceive: a deceptive advertisement.
de·cep′tive·ness n.
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Noun | 1. | deceptiveness - the quality of being deceptive dishonesty - the quality of being dishonest meretriciousness, speciousness - an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument" |
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
deceptiveness
n → Täuschende(s) nt; the deceptiveness of the effects of perspective → die trügerischen Effekte der Perspektive; beware of the deceptiveness of statistics → Vorsicht, Statistiken sind irreführend
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