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speciosities

speciosities is the plural of speciosity.

Meaning of speciosity

Noun (1)

speciosity (countable and uncountable, plural speciosities)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being specious; speciousness.
  2. (countable, in plural, rare) A specious action, promise, ideology, etc.
    • Till deep misery, if nothing softer will, have driven you out of your Speciosites into your Sincerities; and you find there either is a Godlike in the world, or else ye are an unintelligible madness;1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 8, The Electon”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

Noun (2)

speciosity (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being speciose.
    • The circumstance that the proportion of taxa with 12 + 14 vertebrae increased in the lower categories is due to the speciosity of the Epinephelinae.1960 December 30, Carl L[eavitt] Hubbs, “Fauna Japonica/Serranidae (Pisces). By Masao Katayama. […] Fauna Japonica/Cottidae (Pisces). By Masao Watanabe. […]”, in Copeia, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa....

Questions about speciosities

What is speciosities the plural of?
Speciosities is the plural of speciosity.

Words near speciosities in the dictionary

  1. speciociliatine
  2. speciogynine
  3. speciology
  4. speciophylline
  5. speciose
  6. speciosities
  7. speciosity
  8. specious
  9. specious present
  10. speciously
  11. speciousness

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