English

Noun

deceptivity ‎(usually uncountable, plural deceptivities)

1. deceptiveness; a deception; a sham.
   • 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

     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!