deceptivity
nounUK /dɪsɛpˈtɪvɪti/
Etymology From deceptive + -ity.
1
Usually The quality of being deceptive.
- My few senses long ago revealed to me their imperfections and deceptivity.1908, Helen Keller, chapter 4, in The World I Live In,, New York: The Century Co., page 50:
- Company-wide totals take on an iceberg-like deceptivity—what isn’t shown may be more important than what is.1971, Thayer C. Taylor, “Sales Analysis”, in Philip Kotler, Keith K. Cox, editors, Readings in Marketing Management, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, page 383:
2
Rare, Usually Something that deceives.
- 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!1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Chapter 12”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker), page 176: