Deceptivity

My few senses long ago revealed to me their imperfections and deceptivity.

Company-wide totals take on an iceberg-like deceptivity—what isn’t shown may be more important than what is.

Alas, if he look to the Seen Powers only, he may as well quit the business; his No-thing will never rightly issue as a Thing, but as a Deceptivity, a Sham-thing, — which it had better not do!