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Noun: speciousness  spee-shus-nus
  1. An appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility
    "the speciousness of his argument"
    - meretriciousness

Derived forms: speciousnesses

See also: specious

Type of: deceptiveness, obliquity

Encyclopedia: Speciousness

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