speciousness

• Nom désignant la qualité de ce qui a l'apparence de la vérité ou du vraisemblable, mais qui est en réalité faux ou trompeur.

A noun referring to the quality of having an appearance of truth or plausibility that is actually false or deceptive.

indénombrable

1. Deceptive plausibilityC2formal

   The quality of appearing to be true, correct, or reasonable, but actually being false or misleading.

   Plausibilité trompeuse

   • The speciousness of his argument was exposed by the expert.
   • She saw through the speciousness of the advertisement's claims.
   • The speciousness of the theory became apparent after further investigation.

   Synonymescasuistrydeceptivenessfallaciousnessplausibilitysophistry

   Antonymescogencypersuasivenesssoundnessvalidity