12 Letter Words for Speciousness
speciousness
11 Letter Words for Speciousness
piousnesses, spicousness
10 Letter Words for Speciousness
secessions
9 Letter Words for Speciousness
cousiness, piousness, pussiness, scepsises, secession, soupiness, suspenses, unpossess
8 Letter Words for Speciousness
censuses, cessions, cissuses, enosises, espouses, noesises, poseuses, poussies, poussins, senecios, sessions, specious, speisses, suspence, suspense
7 Letter Words for Speciousness
cesious, cession, conessi, conspue, conusee, conuses, cosines, cossies, coupees, cousins, cuissen, cuisses, eosines, espinos, espouse, essoins, eupione, eupneic, incuses, nisuses, oniscus, oscines, osseins, penises, peonies, picenes, piceous, piecens, poesies, poseuse, possess, possies, pounces, pousses, poussie, poussin, psocine, puisnes, pussies, scepses, scepsis, scopine, scouses, senecio, senseis, sepsine, session, sinuose, sinuses, sissone, species, speises, spences, spencie, spenses, speoses, spicose, spicous, spinose, spinous, spissus, spouses, supines, suspens, uncopes, unpiece, unpoise
6 Letter Words for Speciousness
censes, census, cepous, cesses, cessio, cissus, coisns, copens, copies, copses, cosine, cosins, cosses, cossie, coupee, coupes, cousin, cuisse, cuspis, cusses, cussos, ecesis, enoses, enosis, ensues, eosine, eosins, eposes, epuise, espies, espino, essoin, eucone, eupion, icones, incoup, incuse, incuss, iscose, issues, nesses, nessie, nessus, nieces, nisses, noeses, noesis, noises, nosies, nouses, onuses, opines, opsins, opuses, oscine, ossein, ounces, pences, peneus, penies, peones, picene, piecen, pieces, pineus, pisces, piscos, pisses, poesie, poesis, poises, ponces, ponies, posies, posses, possie, pounce, pousse, psenes, psions, puisne, punces, punese, pusses, scenes, scions, scious, scones, scopes, scoups, scouse, scuses, scusin, secess, seines, seises, sencio, sensei, senses, sensus, sepion, sepone, sepose, sepses, sepsin, sepsis, sesses, sisses, snipes, socies, socius, sonces, sonics, sonses, sonsie, sosses, souces, souses, specie, specus, speise, speiss, spence, spense, spices, spines, spinus, spouse, suisse, supine, susses, uncope, unepic, unesco, upness, upsees, upsies
5 Letter Words for Speciousness
cense, cepes, cesse, cines, cions, coins, cones, conus, copei, copen, copes, copis, copse, copus, cosen, coses, cosie, cosin, cosse, coupe, coups, cunei, cusie, cusps, cusso, encup, ensis, ensue, eosin, epeus, epics, esnes, espec, essen, esses, euois, icons, incus, insee, insep, insue, ipsus, issue, issus, neeps, niece, nisse, nisus, noise, nopes, noses, noups, onces, oncus, opens, opine, opsin, oscin, ounce, pecos, peens, peine, pence, penie, penis, pense, peons, pesos, picus, piece, pines, pinus, pions, pious, pisco, pisos, pocus, poise, ponce, pones, poses, posse, pouce, psion, puces, punce, punic, puses, scene, scion, scone, scope, scops, scoup, scups, scuse, secno, secos, secus, seeps, seine, seise, sence, sense, senso, sensu, sepic, sices, siens, since, sines, sinus, sipes, sises, sison, sissu, snees, snies, snipe, snips, sonce, sones, sonic, sonse, sosie, souce, soups, souse, spece, specs, speen, speos, spice, spics, spies, spine, spins, spise, spiss, spues, suine, sunis, supes, suses, susso, unces, uncos, unice, unsee, upsee, usine, usnic
4 Letter Words for Speciousness
cees, cene, cens, cepe, ceps, cess, cine, cion, cipo, coes, coin, cone, coni, cons, cope, cops, cose, coss, coue, coup, cpus, cues, cuon, cups, cusp, cuss, econ, ecus, eine, enes, ense, eons, epic, epos, eses, esne, esop, esse, euoi, ices, icon, insp, iocs, ions, ipse, ipso, isos, neep, neps, nese, ness, nice, nies, nips, noes, nope, nose, noup, nous, nsec, oeci, once, ones, onus, opec, open, opes, opus, oses, osse, oups, pecs, peen, pees, pene, peni, pens, peon, peso, pess, pice, pico, pics, pien, pies, pine, pino, pins, pion, pise, piso, piss, pius, pnce, pois, pone, pons, pose, poss, psec, psis, puce, puns, puss, scop, scsi, scun, scup, seco, secs, seen, seep, sees, seis, sene, sens, sepn, seps, sese, sess, sice, sics, sien, sine, sins, sion, sipe, sips, sise, siss, snee, snip, snop, snup, soce, socs, sone, sons, sope, sops, soss, soup, sous, spec, spic, spie, spin, spue, spun, suci, sues, sune, suni, suns, supe, sups, susi, suss, unce, unci, unco, uncs, unie, unio, unis, upon, usee, uses
3 Letter Words for Speciousness
cee, cen, ceo, cep, cie, cis, cns, con, cop, cos, cpi, cpo, cps, cpu, csi, csp, cue, cun, cup, eco, ecu, eec, een, enc, ene, ens, eon, eos, epi, esc, ese, esp, ess, esu, ice, inc, ins, ion, ios, iou, ipo, ips, ise, isn, iso, nco, nee, nei, neo, nep, nie, nip, nis, nos, nus, oes, oie, ois, one, oni, ons, ope, ops, ose, osi, oui, oup, ous, pci, pec, pee, pen, pes, pic, pie, pin, pis, piu, poi, pon, pos, psi, pun, pus, sci, sec, see, sei, sen, sep, sic, sie, sin, sip, sis, soc, son, sop, sou, sps, sse, ssp, ssu, sue, sui, sun, sup, sus, unc, uni, unp, uns, upo, ups, use
Definitions for Speciousness
[1] apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
[2] pleasing to the eye but deceptive.
[3] Obsolete . pleasing to the eye; fair.
[4] apparently correct or true, but actually wrong or false
[5] deceptively attractive in appearance
Words related to Speciousness
speciouscavil, perversion, delusion, falsehood, miscalculation, bias, casuistry, artifice, deception, evasion, aberration, ambiguity, heresy, prejudice, deviation, flaw, misapprehension, misinterpretation, quirk, solecism
Words nearby Speciousness
speciousspecificity, specify, specimen, specimen plant, speciosity, specious, specious present, speck, speckle, speckle interferometry, speckle pattern
Origin of Speciousness
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin speciōsus fair, good-looking, beautiful, equivalent to speci(ēs ) (see species) + -ōsus -ous
Words that may be confused with Speciousness
WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, speciousspecie, species, specious
Other words from Speciousness
spe·cious·ly , adverb
spe·cious·ness , noun
non·spe·cious , adjective
non·spe·cious·ly , adverb
non·spe·cious·ness , noun
un·spe·cious , adjective
un·spe·cious·ly , adverb
un·spe·cious·ness , noun
Word origin for Speciousness
C14 (originally: fair): from Latin speciōsus plausible, from speciēs outward appearance, from specere to look at
Synonyms for Speciousness
aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, spuriousness, subterfuge, untruth, non sequitur, quibbling
