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Meretriciousness is the name for that false shine itself — the quality of looking attractive while having little real value, or of not being based on the truth. You use it when you want a noun, not an adjective: not “a show”, but “the meretriciousness of the show”. It is even more formal and than , and rather ; it belongs in essays and reviews, not in everyday talk. The meaning is the same empty glitter; only the grammar has changed.
華而不實、虛有其表（指這種性質）
組成meretricious + -ness. The ending -ness is the old English way to turn a quality-word into a noun (kind → kindness). For the Latin inside meretricious, see that word: meretrīx from mereō, “to earn”.
同家族的字
- meretriciousthe adjective this noun is built from
- meritsame Latin mereō, “to earn” — but merit is real worth, not this fake shine
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
meretriciousnessnoun
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The property of being meretricious.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。