DECEPTIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deceptiveness mean? 

• DECEPTIVENESS (noun)
  The noun DECEPTIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being deceptive

  Familiarity information: DECEPTIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECEPTIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being deceptive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

deceptiveness; obliquity

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)