Meaning of speciosity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state or quality of being specious.
   uncountable
2. The state or quality of being speciose.
   uncountable
3. A specious action, promise, ideology, etc.
   countable, in-plural, rare

Examples

“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;”

“The circumstance that the proportion of taxa with 12 + 14 vertebrae increased in the lower categories is due to the speciosity of the Epinephelinae.”

“[David] Jablonski’s end-Cretaceous mollusc genera suffer⟳ extinction to an equal degree, irrespective of their speciosity, geographical spread⟳ or other extinctionproof insurance policies.”

“Here, then, is the old familiar pattern: one group among many expands until they outnumber all the rest⟳. Yet the speciosity of the passerines should not be confused with ‘dominance’. Though they are, of course, immensely varied, they all essentially continue⟳ to exploit the niche of the small percher.”

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