Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being specious or beautiful; a beautiful show or spectacle; something delightful to the eye.
- noun The state of being specious or plausible; a specious show; a specious person or thing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.
- noun That which is specious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state or quality of being
specious . - noun countable, rare pl. Specious actions, promises, ideologies, etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is observed in similitude, inasmuch as it forms the ground of species or form, and so is called speciosity, because beauty is nothing but numerical equality, or a certain disposition of parts accompanied with sweetness of color.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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It is unfortunate, for when Anna is stirred by the sight of him and his all-conquering speciosity, any reader is sure to protest.
The Craft of Fiction Percy Lubbock 1922
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To examine whether or not an association exists between the conservation status of species within genera and their position in Darwin's manufactory schema, all the world's bird genera were divided into four groups based on their speciosity and the richness of their subspecies.
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Within the 98 families with at least three genera, 59 families had a positive relationship between the speciosity of genera and the mean number of subspecies per species within those genera (one-tailed Binomial test, p = 0.027).
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We used non-parametric Kendall correlations to test for an association between the speciosity of genera and the mean and median number of subspecies per species.
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Within the 98 families with at least three genera, 59 families had a positive relationship between the speciosity of genera and the mean number of subspecies per species within those genera (one-tailed Binomial test, p = 0.027).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David G. Haskell et al. 2009
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To examine whether or not an association exists between the conservation status of species within genera and their position in Darwin's manufactory schema, all the world's bird genera were divided into four groups based on their speciosity and the richness of their subspecies.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David G. Haskell et al. 2009
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We used non-parametric Kendall correlations to test for an association between the speciosity of genera and the mean and median number of subspecies per species.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David G. Haskell et al. 2009
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The State in all European countries, and in England first of all, as I hope, will discover that its functions are now, and have long been, very wide of what the State in old pedant Downing Streets has aimed at; that the State is, for the present, not a reality but in great part a dramatic speciosity, expending its strength in practices and objects fallen many of them quite obsolete; that it must come a little nearer the true aim again, or it cannot continue in this world.
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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