mendacity

Synonyms

fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, prevarication, story, tale, untruth, whopper;

Antonyms

truth;

Near Antonyms

fact, truism, verity;

honesty, truthfulness, veracity;

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification;

Related Words

distortion, exaggeration, half-truth;

ambiguity, equivocation;

defamation, libel, slander;

perjury;

bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence);

canard, fallacy, misconception, myth;

falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement;

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence;