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speciosity

noun
/ˌspiːʃiˈɒsɪti/

Etymology

From Middle English speciouste (“attractiveness”), from Latin speciōsitās (“beauty”), from speciēs (“appearance”). By surface analysis, speci(ous) + -osity.

  1. derived from speciōsitās
  2. inherited from speciouste

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being specious.

  2. 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;

  3. 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.
    • [David] Jablonski’s end-Cretaceous mollusc genera suffer extinction to an equal degree, irrespective of their speciosity, geographical spread or other extinctionproof insurance policies.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA