Text: 1 a false idea or belief<a letter condemning secularism and other movements that the church considered to be falsities of the modern age>— see fallacy 1 2 a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive<when questioned by his parents about his drug use, the teenager told one blatant falsity after another>— see lie 3 lack of faithfulness especially to one's husband or wife<the falsity of Guinevere usually figures prominently in medieval and modern tellings of the legend of King Arthur>— see infidelity 1 4 the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another<despite being offered a fortune to spill the presidentʼs secrets, the trusted aide declared that heʼd sooner die than be guilty of such falsity>— see betrayal 5 the quality or state of being false<the falsity of Columbusʼs estimate of the earthʼs circumference was pretty much demonstrated when he made a head-on collision with the western hemisphere>— see fallacy 2

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