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MERETRICIOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tasteless showiness
Synonyms:
brashness; flashiness; garishness; gaudiness; glitz; loudness; meretriciousness; tawdriness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("meretriciousness" is a kind of...):
tastelessness (inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste)
Derivation:
meretricious (tastelessly showy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility
Example:
the speciousness of his argument
Synonyms:
meretriciousness; speciousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("meretriciousness" is a kind of...):
deceptiveness; obliquity (the quality of being deceptive)
Derivation:
meretricious (based on pretense; deceptively pleasing)
