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Fallaciousness

Definition: Fallaciousness

Fallaciousness

Noun

1. Result of a fallacy or error in reasoning.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fallaciousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1748. (references)

Usage Frequency: Fallaciousness

"Fallaciousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fallaciousness" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fallaciousness

Language Translations for "fallaciousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pasaktësi (fallibility, impropriety, inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness, vagueness). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

лъжовност, погрешност (erroneousness, falseness, falsity, illegitimacy, incorrectness, mistakenness, perversity, viciousness). (various references)

   

Czech

  

klam (bluff, cheating, deceit, deception, fallacy, sham). (various references)

   

French

  

fausseté (fallacy, falseness, falsity). (various references)

   

German

  

Falschheit (baseness, deceitfulness, falsehood, falseness, falsity, insincerity, nontruth, phoniness, shoddiness, untruthfulness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απατηλότησ (trickiness), απατηλότητα (deceitfulness, falseness, trickiness). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

כזב (fabrication, falsehood, lie, prevarication, untruth), "טעי" (deception, feint, misleading, sophistry). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félrevezetés (abuse, hoax, misdirection, misguidance, mystification). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allaciousnessfay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

ошибочность (fallibility, falsity). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

varljivost (fraudulence). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính chất trá nguỵ, tính chất lừa dối (delusiveness, fallacy), tính chất gian dối. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Fallaciousness

Derivations

Words beginning with "fallaciousness": fallaciousnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Fallaciousness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-f-i-l-l-n-o-s-s-s-u"

-3 letters: callousness.

-4 letters: alliaceous, casualness, fallacious, seclusions.

-5 letters: alliances, allusions, callouses, canailles, canalises, collinses, coulisses, fallacies, focalises, focusless, issuances, localises, lousiness, nasalises, salacious, sauciness, scaliness, scallions, scullions, seclusion, sessional.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-f-i-l-l-n-o-s-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: fallaciousnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fallaciousness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 6C 6C 61 63 69 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#97 &#99 &#105 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 006C 006C 0061 0063 0069 006F 0075 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4067787867697581878580718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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