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SPURIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spuriousness mean? 

SPURIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun SPURIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. state of lacking genuinenessplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SPURIOUSNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

State of lacking genuineness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("spuriousness" is a kind of...):

falseness; falsity (the state of being false or untrue)

Antonym:

genuineness (the state of being genuine)

Derivation:

spurious (false or fake; not what it appears to be)

spurious (plausible but false)


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