speciosityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌspiːʃiˈɒsɪti/
• 韻: -ɒsɪti

名詞

speciosity (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 speciosities)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being specious.
2. (countable, rare, chiefly in the plural) A specious action, promise, ideology, etc.
   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 8, The Electon”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, OCLC 191225086, book II (The Ancient Monk):

     Till deep misery, if nothing softer will, have driven you out of your Speciosites into your Sincerities; and you find there either is a Godlike in the world, or else ye are an unintelligible madness;