insidiousness
English
Noun
insidiousness (usually uncountable, plural insidiousnesses)
- A surreptitious harmfulness, quality of entrapment, or treacherousness; the characteristic of being insidious.
- 1900, Edith Wharton, The Touchstone, ch. 8,
- This lent a new insidiousness to his temptation, since her contempt would be a refuge from his own.
- 1900, Edith Wharton, The Touchstone, ch. 8,
References
- insidiousness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “insidiousness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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