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

Zvyagintsev’s story, like Chabrol’s, imagines the tragic fallout of a husband discovering his wife’s infidelity.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
His relationship with his wife (Anna Faris) and kids is disintegrating and a National Enquirer journo keeps threatening to run an exposé of his infidelities.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of infidelity

Noun

Leaders managing autonomous agent deployments across enterprise environments have spent years auditing outputs for compliance, deception vectors and guardrail breaches.

— Terry Oroszi, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Those charges cover a wide range of behaviors related to schemes in which money or property is obtained through deception and interstate electronic communications.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of deception

Noun

For one thing covetousness, as opposed to the more concrete sins like theft or murder or adultery, is a thought crime, and almost all that goes on here, happens within the minds of the characters.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 6 Sep. 2026
Its citizens held slaves, some of whom were shackled for committing adultery.

— Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of adultery

Noun

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

These people are opening the door to our enemies, which used to be called treason.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
But the hostility toward Jews was evident during the Dreyfus affair, which saw Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894.

— Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026

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