speciousness

spe·cious

S0616400 (spē′shəs)adj.1. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.2. Deceptively appealing: "It is easy enough to give the old idea [of programmatic music] a specious air of modernity" (Aaron Copland).

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

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spe′cious·ly adv.spe′ci·os′i·ty (-shē-ŏs′ĭ-tē), spe′cious·ness (-shəs-nĭs) n.

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speciousness - an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"meretriciousnessdeceptiveness, obliquity - the quality of being deceptive

speciousness

nounPlausible but invalid reasoning:casuistry, fallacy, sophism, sophistry, spuriousness.

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