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Falsity Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Falsity? [n] a false statement [n] the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Falsity: false statement \| falsehood \| falseness \| untruth Related Terms \| Find terms related to Falsity: aberrancy \| aberration \| acting \| affectation \| appearance \| attitudinizing \| bad faith \| barratry \| blague \| bluff \| bluffing \| breach of faith \| breach of promise \| breach of trust \| canard \| casuistry \| cheating \| cock-and-bull story \| color \| coloring \| deceit \| deceitfulness \| deception \| deceptiveness \| defectiveness \| delusion \| dereliction \| deviancy \| disaffection \| disguise \| dishonesty \| disingenuousness \| disloyalty \| dissemblance \| dissembling \| dissimulation \| distortion \| errancy \| erroneousness \| error \| exaggeration \| fabrication \| facade \| face \| fairy tale \| faithlessness \| fake \| fakery \| faking \| fallaciousness \| fallacy \| false air \| false front \| false show \| falsehood \| falseness \| farfetched story \| farrago \| fault \| faultiness \| feigning \| feint \| fib \| fickleness \| fiction \| fish story \| flam \| flaw \| flawedness \| flimflam \| four-flushing \| fraud \| fraudulence \| front \| ghost story \| gilt \| gloss \| half-truth \| hamartia \| heresy \| heterodoxy \| humbug \| humbuggery \| hypocrisy \| illusion \| imposture \| inconstancy \| infidelity \| insincerity \| inveracity \| legal fiction \| lie \| little white lie \| mala fides \| masquerade \| mendaciousness \| mendacity \| meretriciousness \| misapplication \| misconstruction \| misdoing \| misfeasance \| misinterpretation \| misjudgment \| misrepresentation \| ostentation \| outward show \| peccancy \| perfidiousness \| perfidy \| perversion \| pious fiction \| playacting \| pose \| posing \| posture \| pretense \| pretension \| pretext \| prevarication \| Punic faith \| recreancy \| representation \| seeming \| self-contradiction \| semblance \| sham \| show \| simulacrum \| simulation \| sin \| sinfulness \| slight stretching \| speciousness \| spuriousness \| story \| tale \| tall story \| tall tale \| taradiddle \| trothlessness \| trumped-up story \| truthlessness \| uncandidness \| unfaith \| unfaithfulness \| unloyalty \| unorthodoxy \| unsteadfastness \| untrueness \| untruth \| untruthfulness \| varnish \| white lie \| window dressing \| wrong \| wrongness \| yarn See Also \| contradiction \| contradiction in terms \| deceit \| deception \| dodge \| dodging \| fable \| fabrication \| fiction \| irreality \| lie \| misrepresentation \| prevarication \| scheme \| spuriousness \| statement \| unreality Falsity In Webster's Dictionary \Fal"si*ty\, n.;pl. {Falsities}. [L. falsitas: cf. F. fausset['e], OF. also, falsit['e]. See {False}, a.] 1. The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. --South. 2. That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. Men often swallow falsities for truths. --Sir T. Brown. Syn: Falsehood; lie; deceit. Usage: {Falsity}, {Falsehood}, {Lie}. Falsity denotes the state or quality of being false. A falsehood is a false declaration designedly made. A lie is a gross, unblushing falsehood. The falsity of a person's assertion may be proved by the evidence of others and thus the charge of falsehood be fastened upon him.

Falsity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Falsity?

[n] a false statement
[n] the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Falsity: false statement | falsehood | falseness | untruth

Falsity In Webster's Dictionary

\Fal"si*ty\, n.;pl. {Falsities}. [L. falsitas: cf. F.
fausset['e], OF. also, falsit['e]. See {False}, a.]
1. The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of
   conformity to truth.

         Probability does not make any alteration, either in
         the truth or falsity of things.       --South.

2. That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.

         Men often swallow falsities for truths. --Sir T.
                                               Brown.

Syn: Falsehood; lie; deceit.

Usage: {Falsity}, {Falsehood}, {Lie}. Falsity denotes the
       state or quality of being false. A falsehood is a
       false declaration designedly made. A lie is a gross,
       unblushing falsehood. The falsity of a person's
       assertion may be proved by the evidence of others and
       thus the charge of falsehood be fastened upon him.

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