FALSENESS Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

falseness

noun

Definition of falseness

as in infidelity

lack of faithfulness especially to one's husband or wife so that their love would never know a moment of falseness, Thomas Jefferson promised his dying wife that he would never remarry

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as in betrayal

the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another she could not believe that her so-called best friend could ever be guilty of such falseness

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as in deception

the quality or state of being false the falseness of your reasoning is so blatant that it's no wonder you reached that absurd conclusion

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Recent Examples of falseness The falseness of the medium, though, jibed with the falseness of most attempts, throughout American history, to make sense of this enormous, strange man. — Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026

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Noun

Gripped by a paralyzing fear for the fate of her future children, Naama returns to the same monument where the infidelity took place; there, her parents appear before her.

— Katie Campione, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026
In June, The New York Times spoke to multiple women who accused Platner of physical intimidation, infidelity and disturbing comments.

— Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of infidelity

Noun

Jessica transforms the betrayal of a generation taught that work would protect them into visceral cinema, where illness cracks the skin while luxury masks collapse.

— Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
This hardly is the first instance of the betrayal of that trust.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of betrayal

Noun

Recent history suggests that the only effective counter to such meddling is a public statement alerting voters to the deception, by some credibly neutral, nonpartisan authority.

— David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Peter trying to have a normal holiday while grieving Tony, Mysterio’s deception, and the post-credits scene that blows Peter’s life apart — all of it feeds into where the new film finds him.

— Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of deception

Noun

Her adultery story initially evokes the imprisoned girl’s compensatory reveries, but over time its focus shifts.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
The name has Biblical undertones and refers to a theory that Adam (of Adam and Eve) had a first wife named Lilith, who committed adultery with Satan and transformed into an evil being who kidnaps children.

— Katie Mather, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

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Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Beyond the deceptiveness of the narrow material view, spiritual light and hope are always present to be found and felt.

— Sue Brightman, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2025

Definition of deceptiveness

Noun

Platner, indeed, has boiled down nearly all political problems to the perfidy of sinister oligarchs.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
If the landing had been faked, the Soviets would have figured it out and would have loved to reveal to the world America’s perfidy.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026

Definition of perfidy

Noun

The book — with its treatment of racial integration as equivalent to the death-penalty federal crime of treason — has inspired numerous acts of racist violence through the years since its publication.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
Russian journalist Darya Shipacheva was convicted of treason by a Moscow court and sentenced Wednesday to 12 ‌years in a penal colony, the Interfax news agency reported.

— Reuters, NBC news, 29 July 2026

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