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phonyness

phonyness is the alternative spelling of phoniness.

Meaning of phoniness

Noun

phoniness (plural phoninesses)

  1. The condition or quality of being phony or fake.
    • The phoniness of his plea could not be concealed.

Forms of phonyness

pluralphonynesses

Origin of phonyness

From phony + -ness.

Questions about phonyness

What is phonyness the alternative spelling of?
Phonyness is the alternative spelling of phoniness.

Words near phonyness in the dictionary

  1. Phony War
  2. phony-baloney
  3. phonyed up
  4. phonying
  5. phonying up
  6. phonyness
  7. phonynesses
  8. phonytail
  9. phonytails
  10. phoo
  11. phooee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phonyness (page history and authors); phoniness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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