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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /dɪsɛpˈtɪvɪti/

名詞

deceptivity (usually uncountable, 複数形 deceptivities)

1. The quality of being deceptive.

   Synonym: deceptiveness

   • 1908, Helen Keller, The World I Live In, New York: The Century Co., Chapter 4, p. 50,^[1]

     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,^[2]

     Company-wide totals take on an iceberg-like deceptivity—what isn’t shown may be more important than what is.

2. (まれに) Something that deceives.

   Synonyms: deception, sham

   • 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present London: Chapman & Hall, Book 3, Chapter 12, p. 176,^[3]

     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!