PHONINESS


Meaning of PHONINESS in English

noun

also pho·ny·ness -nēnə̇s

( -es )

: the quality or state of being phony : falsity , spuriousness

describes vicious, idle, and deliriously acquisitive sides of American life — the eccentric cruelties, the lack of standards, the scintillating phoniness — Alfred Kazin

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.