disingenuity

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ ingenuity.

Noun

disingenuity (countable and uncountable, plural disingenuities)

1. Synonym of disingenuousness
   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “Book IV”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], volume I, part II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC, page 340:

     […] it was only his Obſervation of the Diſingenuity, and want of Integrity in this Parliament, which leſſened that Reverence to it, […]

   • 1819, James Gregory, Letters from Dr. James Gregory of Edinburgh: In Defence of His Essay on the Difference of the Relation Between Motive and Action and that of Cause and Effect in Physics, with Replies, by Alex. Crombie, page 289:

     For example; Do you seriously believe, and mean to assert, that it is impossible for any person, even for a philosopher, to be guilty of disingenuity and falsehood, by professing to believe a sophism which he really did not […]?

References

• “disingenuity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.