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FALSENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
Synonyms:
falseness; hollowness; insincerity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("falseness" is a kind of...):
untruthfulness (the quality of being untruthful)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falseness"):
hypocrisy (insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have)
Derivation:
false ((used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful)
false (adopted in order to deceive)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
Synonyms:
faithlessness; falseness; fickleness; inconstancy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("falseness" is a kind of...):
infidelity; unfaithfulness (the quality of being unfaithful)
Derivation:
false (deliberately deceptive)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The state of being false or untrue
Example:
argument could not determine its truth or falsity
Synonyms:
falseness; falsity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("falseness" is a kind of...):
irreality; unreality (the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falseness"):
spuriousness (state of lacking genuineness)
Derivation:
false (arising from error)
false (inappropriate to reality or facts)
false (not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality)
