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Piosity vs Pilosity - What's the difference?

piosity | pilosity |

As nouns the difference between piosity and pilosity

is that piosity is affected or exaggerated piety while pilosity is the quality or state of being pilose.

piosity

English

Noun

(piosities)
  • Affected or exaggerated piety.
  • *2003': We have since / learned to scoff at all such drollery, at the stalls / rife with the junk of old '''piosity — John F. Deane, in ''Knock'', from ''Manhandling the Deity , Carcanet, page 23

    • Synonyms

    *sanctimoniousness

    pilosity

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality or state of being pilose.

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