speciousness

Definitions of speciousness
  1. noun
    an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility
    “the speciousness of his argument”
    synonyms: meretriciousness
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    type of:
    deceptiveness, obliquity
    the quality of being deceptive
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