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Pretentiousness vs Sophistry - What's the difference?

pretentiousness | sophistry |

As nouns the difference between pretentiousness and sophistry

is that pretentiousness is the quality of being pretentious while sophistry is (uncountable) cunning, sometimes manifested as trickery.

pretentiousness

English

Noun

  • The quality of being pretentious.

    • sophistry

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Cunning, sometimes manifested as trickery.
  • *"Such conduct is at any rate not sophistical, if Aristotle be right in describing sophistry as the art of making money." 1844 - Søren Kierkegaard in Philosophical Fragments (Philosophiske Smuler eller En Smule Philosophi)
  • (uncountable) The art of using deceptive speech or writing.
  • (countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.

    • Related terms

    * Sophia * sophism * sophist * sophistication

    See also

    * demagogy * rhetoric