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DECEPTIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being deceptive
Synonyms:
deceptiveness; obliquity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("deceptiveness" is a kind of...):
dishonesty (the quality of being dishonest)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deceptiveness"):
meretriciousness; speciousness (an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility)
Derivation:
deceptive (designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently)
deceptive (causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true)
