Meaning & use
spuriousness
Last updated
The quality of being false, fake, or not genuine, despite appearing authentic.
See it in a sentence
The report exposed the spuriousness of the company's safety claims.
Statisticians questioned the spuriousness of the correlation between the two variables.
A note on using this word
In statistics, a 'spurious correlation' refers to a relationship between variables that appears meaningful but is actually coincidental.
Words with a similar meaning
fakenessfalseness
Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.
Words with an opposite meaning
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “spuriousness”, then compare your use with the examples above.
Your draft stays on this page and is not sent anywhere.