Speciousness


adjective
1.
apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible:
specious arguments.
2.
pleasing to the eye but deceptive.
3.
Obsolete. pleasing to the eye; fair.
adjective
1.
apparently correct or true, but actually wrong or false
2.
deceptively attractive in appearance
adjective

plausible but not true; based on pretense; sophistic
Word Origin

Latin specissus ‘beautiful, plausible’

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