FALLACIES Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

fallacies

noun

plural of fallacy

as in myths

a false idea or belief the once-common fallacy that girls just weren't any good at math

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Recent Examples of fallacies Understanding vicious cycles and logical fallacies. — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026 While counting the president’s fallacies has become routine, the ideological subservience of his senior-most cabinet members and advisors this term has given the public reason to second-guess statements and data issued by them or their offices. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026 Rose pointed out that our decision-making, especially System 1 decision-making, is affected by cognitive biases and logical fallacies. — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2026 While a painter envies the novelist’s ability to inhabit consciousness, or a filmmaker envies the freedom from production costs, artists must be warned that writing carries its own myths and seductive fallacies. — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025 Such fallacies are utterly unacceptable anywhere…The Chinese military will continue to take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, and firmly uphold regional peace and stability. — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025 Trying to pin down what a novelist actually believes is a sure way to get trapped in a labyrinth of misreadings and fallacies. — Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025 And a world of fallacies underlies the President and his administration’s rejection of climate action. — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2017

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Noun

Ancient myths and modern cinema depict bogs as sinister locales, dangerous to cross, and fatal to get trapped in.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
But in earlier myths, Al Basty was described as a hearth deity and a protector of women in childbirth.

— Yulia Denisyuk, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of myths

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But a line like that also fleshes out the head-in-the-stratosphere delusions of everyone here.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026
The company has also been sued by the parents of kids who took their own lives, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged suicide and harmful delusions.

— James Peckham, PC Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of delusions

Noun

When people have little relief from stress in a chaotic environment, their brains have difficulty coping with the ongoing prediction errors, Friston, McEwen and neuroscientist Achim Peters argued in a 2017 article.

— Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Passengers will also be able to fix any name errors on their booking for free.

— Will Barker, TheWeek, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of errors

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Pokémon cards, a pricey Ferrari shirt and a touristy museum of illusions.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
When the team built a setup to directly quantify real-time heat flux alongside electrical output, the theoretical illusions collapsed.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of illusions

Noun

American Horror Story is officially back for its 13th season — and so are many of the franchise’s most memorable characters, with a plethora of superstitions to come.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026
The whatever that locked life in the truths of biology, chemistry, physics, far from the hysteria and superstitions of her heart, her family, history.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

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