spuriousness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SPURIOUSNESS, noun 1. The state or quality of being counterfeit, false or not genuine; as the spuriousness of drugs, of coin or of writings. 2. Illegitimacy; the state of being bastard, or not of legitimate birth; as the spuriousness of issue.
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