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speciosity

American

[spee-shee-os-i-tee] / ˌspi ʃiˈɒs ɪ ti /

noun

the quality or state of being specious.

speciosity British

/ ˌspiːʃɪˈɒsɪtɪ /

noun

a thing or person that is deceptively attractive or plausible
the state of being specious
obsolete the state of being beautiful

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

speciosities

plural

Etymology

Origin of speciosity

1425–75; late Middle English < Late Latin speciōsitās good looks, beauty. See specious, -ity

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speciosity speciosities

It is unfortunate, for when Anna is stirred by the sight of him and his all-conquering speciosity, any reader is sure to protest.

From The Craft of Fiction by Percy Lubbock

Open-Scoundrels rode triumphant, bediademed, becoronetted, bemitred; or the still fataller species of Secret-Scoundrels, in their fair-sounding formulas, speciosities, respectabilities, hollow within: the race of Quacks was grown many as the sands of the sea.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

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