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Definition of Speciousness
1. Noun. An appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility. "The speciousness of his argument"
Generic synonyms: Deceptiveness, Obliquity
Derivative terms: Meretricious, Specious, Specious
Definition of Speciousness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being specious. ¹
2. Noun. (countable rare) The result or product of being specious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Speciousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speciousness
Literary usage of Speciousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"ELEGANCE AND speciousness WHEN any body is composed of parts smooth and polished
without pressing upon each other, without showing any ruggedness or ..."
2. A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and by Edmund Burke, Abraham Mills (1844)
"... any statue generally allowed to be graceful in a high degree. SECTION XXIII.
ELEGANCE AND speciousness. WHEN any body is composed of parts smoothed and ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1812)
"His claim therefore is not won of those spurious and prima facie pretensions,
the original fraud of whose concoction til the speciousness of ..."
4. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With a Portrait, and Life of by Edmund Burke (1823)
"ELEGANCE AND speciousness. WHEN any body is composed of parts smooth and polished,
without pressing upon each other, without showing any ruggedness or ..."
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