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FALSITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A false statement
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("falsity" is a kind of...):
statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falsity"):
dodge; dodging; scheme (a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery)
lie; prevarication (a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth)
fable; fabrication; fiction (a deliberately false or improbable account)
deceit; deception; misrepresentation (a misleading falsehood)
contradiction; contradiction in terms ((logic) a statement that is necessarily false)
Derivation:
false (deliberately deceptive)
false (not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality)
falsify (falsify knowingly)
falsify (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)
Sense 2
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 ("falsity" 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 "falsity"):
spuriousness (state of lacking genuineness)
Antonym:
truth (conformity to reality or actuality)
Derivation:
false ((used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful)
false (arising from error)
false (inappropriate to reality or facts)
falsify (falsify knowingly)
falsify (prove false)
falsify (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)
falsify (tamper, with the purpose of deception)
