spuriousness

nounfallacy

Antonyms for spuriousness

Word Origin & History

1590s, "born out of wedlock," from Latin spurius "illegitimate, false" (cf. Italian spurio, Spanish espurio), from spurius (n.) "illegitimate child," probably from Etruscan spural "public." Sense of "having an irregular origin, not properly constituted" is from c.1600; that of "false, sham" is from 1610s.

Example Sentences for spuriousness

Joseph de Avila discovers the spuriousness of the Zohar, 20.

Nor are there wanting other indications of its spuriousness.

This in itself would be sufficient evidence of its spuriousness.

Nor do I find any contemporary assertion of its spuriousness.

I am no antiquarian, and, as a mere lover of beauty, I do not feel this "spuriousness."

Their spuriousness is not a question of doubt or difficulty.

There was an assumption of nonchalance which sat upon these men with the stamp of spuriousness.

All these anachronisms decisively prove the spuriousness of these compositions.

Let us now come to the extrinsic evidence, to determine the genuineness or spuriousness of these multifarious writings.

A certain suspicion of spuriousness continued to cling to it, and greatly diminished its authority.

spuriousness

Synonyms for spuriousness

Antonyms for spuriousness

delusion

delusions

equivocation

fraud

speciousness

spuriousness

Synonyms for spuriousness

Antonyms for spuriousness

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