speciosity

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Noun

speciosity

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being specious.
2. (countable, rare, mostly, in the plural) A specious action, promise, ideology, etc.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 8, The Electon

     Till deep misery, if nothing softer will, have driven you out of your Speciosites into your Sincerities; and you find there either is a Godlike in the world, or else ye are an unintelligible madness;

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