speciousness (n.)
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- bluff
- casuistry
- cheating
- circularity
- color
- coloring
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- disguise
- disingenuousness
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- distortion
- equivocalness
- equivocation
- facade
- face
- fakery
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- falsity
- feigning
- feint
- fraud
- front
- gaudiness
- gilt
- gloss
- humbug
- imposture
- insincerity
- jesuitism
- jesuitry
- masquerade
- meretriciousness
- misapplication
- mystification
- obfuscation
- obscurantism
- ostentation
- perversion
- plausibility
- plausibleness
- playacting
- pose
- posing
- posture
- pretense
- pretension
- pretext
- rationalization
- representation
- semblance
- sham
- show
- simulacrum
- simulation
- sophism
- sophistication
- sophistry
- spuriousness
- subtlety
- superficiality
- varnish