deceptivity
English
Etymology
deceptive + -ity
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsɛpˈtɪvɪti/
Noun
deceptivity (usually uncountable, plural deceptivities)
- The quality of being deceptive.
- Synonym: deceptiveness
- 1908, Helen Keller, The World I Live In, New York: The Century Co., Chapter 4, p. 50,
- My few senses long ago revealed to me their imperfections and deceptivity.
- 1971, Thayer C. Taylor, “Sales Analysis” in Philip Kotler and Keith K. Cox (eds.), Readings in Marketing Management, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, p. 383,
- Company-wide totals take on an iceberg-like deceptivity—what isn’t shown may be more important than what is.
- (rare) Something that deceives.
- Synonyms: deception, sham
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Chapter 12”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, OCLC 191225086, book III (The Modern Worker), page 176:
- Alas, if he look to the Seen Powers only, he may as well quit the business; his No-thing will never rightly issue as a Thing, but as a Deceptivity, a Sham-thing, — which it had better not do!