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Insidiousness vs Collusiveness - What's the difference?

insidiousness | collusiveness |

As nouns the difference between insidiousness and collusiveness

is that insidiousness is a surreptitious harmfulness, quality of entrapment, or treacherousness; the characteristic of being insidious while collusiveness is the quality of being collusive.

insidiousness

English

Noun

(-)
  • 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.

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    collusiveness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being collusive.
    • (Webster 1913)