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a false idea or belief<the once-common fallacy that girls just werenʼt any good at math>Synonymserror, falsehood, falsity, illusion, misconception, myth, old wivesʼ tale, untruthRelated Wordssuperstition; distortion, inaccuracy, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misstatement, misunderstanding; sophism, sophistry; fib, lie, story, taleAntonymstruth, verity
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the quality or state of being false<the fallacy of the notion of spontaneous generation was demonstrated by the Dutch naturalist Leeuwenhoek>Synonymserroneousness, fallaciousness, falseness, falsity, untruthRelated Wordsspeciousness, spuriousness; deception, deceptiveness, delusionNear Antonymsaccuracy, correctness, factualness, genuinenessAntonymstruth
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