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falsehood
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falsehood
English
Noun
Sense: the quality of being false
Synonyms
falsedom
falsehood
falsity
falseness
terminological inexactitude
(
idiomatic euphemism
)
untruth
Antonyms
correctness
truth
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truthfulness
veracity
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verity
Various
erroneous
nonsense
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truthiness
truthlikeness
verisimilitude
wikiality
Sense: a false statement
Synonyms
disinformation
fabrication
falsehood
falsity
fib
leasing
lie
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misinformation
misstatement
untruth
yed
Antonyms
truth
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veracity
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verity
Related terms
equivocation
error
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factoid
fairy tale
fiction
misconception
nonsense
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prevaricate
See also
Thesaurus:false
Thesaurus:lie
Further reading
“
falsehood
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
untruth
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
falsehood
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.