Exact Match:
- spuriousness
- state of lacking genuineness
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- sophism
collapse - a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone related words >
- apparent soundness,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- bad case,
- begging the question,
- casuistry,
- circular argument,
- circularity,
- claptrap,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- delusion,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- empty words,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- formal fallacy,
- hysteron proteron,
- illogicality,
- insincere argument,
- insincerity,
- invalidity,
- irrationality,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- logical fallacy,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- misapplication,
- moonshine,
- mystification,
- non sequitur,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oversubtlety,
- paralogism,
- perversion,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pseudosyllogism,
- rationalization,
- solecism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- unsoundness,
- verbal fallacy,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- weak point
- speciousness
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- an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument" related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- apparent character,
- apparent soundness,
- appearance,
- appearances,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- casuistry,
- cheating,
- circularity,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- disingenuousness,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distortion,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- exteriors,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- masquerade,
- mere externals,
- meretriciousness,
- misapplication,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- oversubtlety,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- public image,
- rationalization,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- superficiality,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- vain show,
- varnish,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- window dressing
- casuistry
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- moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
- argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading related words >
- Christian ethics,
- Stoicism,
- aesthetics,
- altruistic ethics,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apology,
- apparent soundness,
- aretaics,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- axiology,
- bicker,
- bickering,
- categorical imperative,
- circularity,
- comparative ethics,
- contention,
- controversy,
- cosmology,
- crossed fingers,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defense,
- delusion,
- deontology,
- disingenuousness,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- distortion,
- egoistic ethics,
- empiricism,
- emptiness,
- epistemology,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- ethical formalism,
- ethical philosophy,
- ethics,
- ethology,
- ethonomics,
- eudaemonics,
- evasive reasoning,
- evolutionism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- first philosophy,
- flyting,
- gnosiology,
- golden rule,
- hassle,
- hedonism,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hubbub,
- insincerity,
- intuitionism,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- litigation,
- logic,
- logomachy,
- mental philosophy,
- metaphysics,
- misapplication,
- mockery,
- moral philosophy,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- ontology,
- oversubtlety,
- paper war,
- passage of arms,
- perfectionism,
- perversion,
- phenomenology,
- philosophastry,
- philosophic doctrine,
- philosophic system,
- philosophic theory,
- philosophical inquiry,
- philosophical speculation,
- philosophism,
- philosophy,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- rationalization,
- rhubarb,
- school of philosophy,
- school of thought,
- science of being,
- set-to,
- situation ethics,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- theory of beauty,
- theory of knowledge,
- tongue in cheek,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unfrankness,
- utilitarianism,
- value theory,
- verbal engagement,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- war of words,
- wrangling
- deception
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- the act of deceiving related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- airy nothing,
- appearance,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- autism,
- befooling,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bubble,
- burial,
- burying,
- casuistry,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chimera,
- clouding,
- color,
- coloring,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- cunning,
- darkening,
- daydream,
- deceit,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dirt,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- double-dealing,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dupery,
- duping,
- duplicity,
- equivocation,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakement,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false belief,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flam,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guile,
- gulling,
- gyp,
- hallucination,
- hanky-panky,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hoax,
- hoodwinking,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- impose,
- imposture,
- indirection,
- interment,
- intrigue,
- invisibility,
- knavery,
- manipulation,
- masking,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mirage,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mystification,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overreaching,
- pipe dream,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- putting away,
- representation,
- ride,
- rip-off,
- ruse,
- screening,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- seeming,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- sell,
- semblance,
- sham,
- sharp practice,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- snow job,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- speciousness,
- spoof,
- spuriousness,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trip,
- uncommunicativeness,
- vapor,
- varnish,
- wile,
- window dressing,
- wrong impression
- falsity
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- the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" related words >
- Punic faith,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bad faith,
- barratry,
- blague,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- breach of faith,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- canard,
- casuistry,
- cheating,
- cock-and-bull story,
- color,
- coloring,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defectiveness,
- delusion,
- dereliction,
- deviancy,
- disaffection,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- disingenuousness,
- disloyalty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distortion,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- exaggeration,
- fabrication,
- facade,
- face,
- fairy tale,
- faithlessness,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsehood,
- falseness,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fib,
- fickleness,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flimflam,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- front,
- ghost story,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- half-truth,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- illusion,
- imposture,
- inconstancy,
- infidelity,
- insincerity,
- inveracity,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- mala fides,
- masquerade,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- meretriciousness,
- misapplication,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misrepresentation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- peccancy,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- perversion,
- pious fiction,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prevarication,
- recreancy,
- representation,
- seeming,
- self-contradiction,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- slight stretching,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- story,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- trothlessness,
- trumped-up story,
- truthlessness,
- uncandidness,
- unfaith,
- unfaithfulness,
- unloyalty,
- unorthodoxy,
- unsteadfastness,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- varnish,
- white lie,
- window dressing,
- wrong,
- wrongness,
- yarn
- Italian hand,
- acuteness,
- aesthetics,
- ambiguity,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- axiology,
- bad case,
- begging the question,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- casuistry,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- cleverness,
- college of Laputa,
- corruption,
- cosmology,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- crossed fingers,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- deduction,
- deductive reasoning,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- discourse,
- discourse of reason,
- discursive reason,
- disingenuousness,
- emptiness,
- empty words,
- epistemology,
- equivocation,
- ethics,
- fallacy,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- first philosophy,
- formal fallacy,
- foxiness,
- gamesmanship,
- gnosiology,
- guile,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hysteron proteron,
- induction,
- inductive reasoning,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- insincere argument,
- insincerity,
- inventiveness,
- jesuitry,
- logic,
- logical fallacy,
- logical thought,
- material fallacy,
- mental philosophy,
- mere rhetoric,
- metaphysics,
- misdirection,
- misguidance,
- misinformation,
- misinstruction,
- misknowledge,
- misleading,
- misteaching,
- mockery,
- moonshine,
- moral philosophy,
- mystification,
- non sequitur,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- one-upmanship,
- ontology,
- paralogism,
- perversion,
- petitio principii,
- phenomenology,
- philosophastry,
- philosophic doctrine,
- philosophic system,
- philosophic theory,
- philosophical inquiry,
- philosophical speculation,
- philosophism,
- philosophy,
- proof,
- pseudosyllogism,
- ratiocination,
- rationalism,
- rationality,
- rationalization,
- rationalizing,
- readiness,
- reason,
- reasonableness,
- reasoning,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- school of philosophy,
- school of thought,
- science of being,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- solecism,
- sophism,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- sweet reason,
- tergiversation,
- theory of beauty,
- theory of knowledge,
- tongue in cheek,
- trickiness,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unfrankness,
- value theory,
- verbal fallacy,
- wariness,
- weak point,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
- fallacy
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- a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning related words >
- Albigensianism,
- Arianism,
- Catharism,
- Ebionitism,
- Erastianism,
- Gnosticism,
- Jovinianism,
- Lollardy,
- Manichaeanism,
- Manichaeism,
- Monophysism,
- Monophysitism,
- Pelagianism,
- Waldensianism,
- Wyclifism,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- antinomianism,
- apparent soundness,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- bad case,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- begging the question,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- casuistry,
- circular argument,
- circularity,
- circumvention,
- claptrap,
- conning,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defectiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- deviancy,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- dupery,
- elusion,
- emanatism,
- empty words,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- evasion,
- evasive reasoning,
- fallaciousness,
- false doctrine,
- falsehood,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- formal fallacy,
- hallucination,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- hoodwinking,
- hylotheism,
- hysteron proteron,
- illusion,
- inconsistency,
- insincere argument,
- insincerity,
- inveracity,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- kidding,
- logical fallacy,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- mirage,
- misapplication,
- misbelief,
- miscalculation,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mistake,
- misunderstanding,
- moonshine,
- mystification,
- non sequitur,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- oversubtlety,
- pantheism,
- paralogism,
- peccancy,
- perversion,
- petitio principii,
- phantasm,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pseudosyllogism,
- putting on,
- quibble,
- rationalization,
- self-contradiction,
- self-deception,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- snow job,
- solecism,
- song and dance,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- spuriousness,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- truthlessness,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- verbal fallacy,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- victimization,
- vision,
- weak point,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- wrong,
- wrongness
- delusion
collapse
- the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
- a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"
- (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- acting,
- affectation,
- agnosia,
- airy nothing,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- autism,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- block,
- blocking,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bubble,
- calculated deception,
- casuistry,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chimera,
- circumvention,
- color,
- coloring,
- conning,
- counterfeit,
- daydream,
- deceit,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defectiveness,
- defrauding,
- delirium,
- deluded belief,
- delusion of persecution,
- delusiveness,
- dereism,
- deviancy,
- disguise,
- disorientation,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distortion,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dupery,
- eidolon,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- equivocation,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false air,
- false belief,
- false front,
- false show,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fancy,
- fantasy,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- feigning,
- feint,
- figment,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flight of ideas,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- ghost,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- hallucination,
- hallucinosis,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- hoodwinking,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imposture,
- kidding,
- masquerade,
- mental block,
- mental confusion,
- meretriciousness,
- mirage,
- misapplication,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mistake,
- nihilism,
- nihilistic delusion,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- paralogia,
- peccancy,
- perversion,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- pipe dream,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- psychological block,
- putting on,
- representation,
- ruse,
- seeming,
- self-contradiction,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- semblance,
- shade,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- speciousness,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- spuriousness,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trip,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- vapor,
- varnish,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- window dressing,
- wishful thinking,
- wrong,
- wrong impression,
- wrongness
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