Definition for Sophism:

• a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

Synonyms for Sophism:

• n.

  •
  • true,
  • correct.
  •casuistry (noun)
  • over subtlenesses,
  • deceptivenesses,
  • over-subtlenesses,
  • over-subtleness,
  • oversubtlenesses,
  • over subtleness.
  •cognition (noun)
  • sophistry,
  • sophistication,
  • sophism.
  •deception (noun)
  • boondoggle,
  • fast one,
  • double-dealing,
  • cozenage,
  • dupery,
  • dissimulation,
  • hypocrisy,
  • Double dealing,
  • cunnings,
  • beguilements,
  • disinformation,
  • hokum,
  • fraudulence,
  • Defraudation,
  • beguilement,
  • boondoggles.
  •evasion (noun)
  • evadings,
  • obliquenesses,
  • pre texts,
  • shirkings,
  • fancy footworks,
  • shunnings,
  • dodgings,
  • eschewals,
  • cop outs,
  • pre text,
  • pre-texts,
  • co-pout,
  • copouts,
  • pre-text,
  • co-pouts,
  • equivocatings,
  • fudgings,
  • co pout,
  • fugivitenesses,
  • co pouts,
  • fugivities.
  •fallacy (noun)
  • fallacious argument,
  • misconception,
  • absurdity.
  •quibble (noun)
  • Hairsplitter,
  • nit-picker,
  • hairsplitters,
  • Quiddities,
  • hair-splitter,
  • quibble,
  • niggle,
  • quiddity.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • casuistry,
  • copout,
  • deception,
  • deceptiveness,
  • elusion,
  • evasion,
  • fallacy,
  • false belief,
  • faultiness,
  • inexactness,
  • invalidity,
  • jive,
  • misconstrual,
  • non sequitur,
  • obliqueness,
  • speciousness,
  • spuriousness,
  • runaround,
  • eschewal,
  • elusions,
  • cop-out,
  • cop-outs,
  • fancy footwork,
  • fugiviteness,
  • fugivity,
  • invalidities,
  • jives,
  • oversubtleness,
  • shufflings.
  •v.
  • lie.

Sophism Sentence Examples:

• The sophism is barely specious; Francis was not on a par with his successors; he did not act as minister - general, but as founder.

• Intelligence in its turn finds, in the heart, a rampart against sophism.

Homophones for Sophism:

• subjoin, sphagnum, subocean, Sufism, spaceman, subsume, spoken, suspicion, suffusion, spokeswoman, sivaism, sapphism, spasm, soupcon, scyphozoan, spokane, shivaism, specimen, spokesman, sheepskin.

Hyponym for Sophism:

• n.

  • cognition
    false belief, fallacy.