DECEPTIVENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)