erroneousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for erroneousness
Noun
  • Interestingly, men, not women, were more open to benevolent deception.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The movie, with Baranov as its scoundrel tour guide, works its way through some of 21st century Russia’s greatest hits of deception.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Economists call it the sunk cost fallacy.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • For example, a common fallacy is the belief that things were better in some imagined past.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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
Noun
  • The rippling fallout of war on families has long been fertile ground for cinema — trauma is calcified while secrets from the past become myths, either perpetuated long enough to solidify into fact or exposed as falsehoods that cause entire identities to be questioned.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Doctors say medical misinformation has gotten worse A new survey of doctors shows medical falsehoods have grown not only online, but also within the medical exam rooms where doctors and patients interact.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • An overly tired new mother shared how postpartum delusion left her confusing her newborn with her pet in a viral video.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • On the other hand, engaging in serious talk about a delusion and intensifying the delusion ought to be a no-go for the AI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This week, Stuart Heritage reports from the U.K. on why The Salt Path, the inspirational best-selling memoir by Raynor Winn, now seems to be a hive of untruths.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 19 July 2025
  • Social niceties and institutional language are his ways to tell untruths, even to himself, while keeping both the status quo and his organizational status intact.
    Matthew Clark Davison, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • In just a few words, the governor combined falsity with accusation.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Regardless of whether the person was a friend, a freelancer or a paid surrogate, this kind of falsity completely undermines the recruiting process.
    Tokumasa Yamashita, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Erroneousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erroneousness. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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