Speciousness

Definition: Speciousness

Speciousness

Noun

1. An appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility: "the speciousness of his argument".

Date "speciousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Synonym: Speciousness

Synonym: meretriciousness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Reasoning,	Sophistry, paralogy, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet, quiddity; mystification; special pleading; speciousness; Adjective: nonsense; word sense, tongue sense.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Speciousness

English words defined with "speciousness": meretriciousness ♦ Speciosity. (references)

Language		Translations for "speciousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		trügerischer Schein. (various references)

Greek		εύσχημο (speciousity), αληθοφάνεια (plausibility, speciousity, verisimilitude, vraisemblance). (various references)

Manx		molleydys. (various references)

Pig Latin		eciousnessspay

Russian		благовидность (plausibility). (various references)

Turkish		yanıltıcılık, dış görünüşün aldatıcılığı, aldatıcılık (deviousness, illusiveness, trickiness). (various references)

Vietnamese		vẻ ngo� i lừa dối (speciosity), vẻ h� o nhoáng bề ngo� i (speciosity), vẻ có lý bề ngo� i (speciosity), mã ngo� i (facade, speciosity). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "speciousness": speciousnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-p-s-s-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: piousnesses.
	-2 letters: cosinesses, secessions.
	-3 letters: piousness, secession, suspenses.
	-4 letters: censuses, cessions, cosiness, enosises, espouses, eupnoeic, noesises, poussies, senecios, sessions, specious, speisses, suspense.
	-5 letters: cession, cosines, cousins, cuisses, eosines, espouse, essoins, eupneic, incuses, oscines, osseins, penises, peonies, piceous, poesies, possess, pounces, poussie, puisnes, pussies, scouses, senecio, session, sinuses, species, speises, spences, spenses, spinose, spinous, spouses, supines.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-p-s-s-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: copiousnesses.
	+2 letters: captiousnesses, preciousnesses, spaciousnesses, speciousnesses.
	+3 letters: capaciousnesses, perspicuousness, rapaciousnesses.
	+4 letters: auspiciousnesses, capriciousnesses, compulsivenesses, perniciousnesses, precariousnesses, precociousnesses, pseudoscientists, pugnaciousnesses, superciliousness, suspiciousnesses.
	+5 letters: compendiousnesses, conspicuousnesses, impecuniousnesses, perspicaciousness, perspicuousnesses, precipitousnesses, promiscuousnesses, punctiliousnesses.
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Speciousness

Definition: Speciousness

Speciousness

Noun

Synonym: Speciousness

Synonyms within Context: Speciousness

Reasoning,

Crosswords: Speciousness

Modern Translation: Speciousness

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Manx

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Russian

Turkish

Vietnamese

Derivations: Speciousness

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Anagrams: Speciousness

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