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SPURIOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

State of lacking genuineness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("spuriousness" is a kind of...):

falseness; falsity (the state of being false or untrue)

Antonym:

genuineness (the state of being genuine)

Derivation:

spurious (false or fake; not what it appears to be)

spurious (plausible but false)

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