speciousness

English Thesaurus

1. an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility (noun.attribute)

hypernym	:	deceptiveness, obliquity,
definition	:	the quality of being deceptive (noun.attribute)

derivation	:	gilded, meretricious, specious,
definition	:	based on pretense; deceptively pleasing (adj.all)

derivation	:	specious, spurious,
definition	:	plausible but false (adj.all)

derivation	:	gilded, meretricious, specious,
definition	:	based on pretense; deceptively pleasing (adj.all)

derivation	:	specious, spurious,
definition	:	plausible but false (adj.all)