feignednessn.
/ˈfeɪnɪdnɪs/ The quality or state of being feigned; †deceitfulness; insincerity.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > quality of
swikeldoma1250
swikelhedea1250
falsehood1297
deceit1303
falsenessc1330
fraud?a1400
dolosity1401
guilefulnessa1425
feignedness1435
deceitfulness1509
deceivableness1526
knavishness1528
braidienessa1600
fallacy1641
trickiness1723
trickishness1788
deceptiveness1837
snakiness1842
sophistic1868
snakishness1901
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > quality of
feignedness1435
fictitiousness1664
ungenuineness1848
bogosity1893
bogusness1921
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 58 With-oute cessyng to Ioy of godis sight, all fenydnes put bak.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. i. 30 Thy hert is full of faynednes and disceate.
1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze Serm. iii. 39 The church is not the school of fainednesse.
1683 Wilkinson in Mem. J. Story Revived 7 He..greatly abhorred Feignedness.
1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue ii. ii. 184 That subtility and feignedness of carriage.
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