deceptivity

Noun

deceptivity (usually uncountable, plural deceptivities)

1. (usually) The quality of being deceptive.
   • My few senses long ago revealed to me their imperfections and deceptivity.1908, Helen Keller, chapter 4, in The World I Live In,, New York: The Century Co., page 50
   • Company-wide totals take on an iceberg-like deceptivity—what isn’t shown may be more important than what is.1971, Thayer C. Taylor, “Sales Analysis”, in Philip Kotler, Keith K. Cox, editors, Readings in Marketing Management, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, page 383

   Synonyms:

   deceptiveness

2. (rare, usually) Something that deceives.
   • Alas, if he look to the Seen Powers only, he may as well quit the business; his No-thing will never rightly issue as a Thing, but as a Deceptivity, a Sham-thing, — which it had better not do!1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Chapter 12”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker), page 176

   Synonyms:

   deception, sham