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fallacy

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of fallacy

1 a false idea or belief

the once-common fallacy that girls just werenʼt any good at math

Synonyms of fallacy

delusion, error, falsehood, falsity, hallucination, illusion, misbelief, misconception, myth, old wivesʼ tale, untruth

Words Related to fallacy

fiction, pretense (or pretence)

distortion, inaccuracy, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misperception, misunderstanding

misinformation, misknowledge, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

sophism, sophistry

fib, half-truth, lie, story, tale

Antonyms of fallacy

2 the quality or state of being false

the fallacy of the notion of spontaneous generation was demonstrated by the Dutch naturalist Leeuwenhoek

Synonyms of fallacy

erroneousness, fallaciousness, falsehood, falseness, falsity, untruth

Words Related to fallacy

speciousness, spuriousness

deception, deceptiveness, delusion

inaccuracy, incorrectness

dishonesty, mendaciousness, mendacity, untruthfulness

Near Antonyms of fallacy

accuracy, actuality, correctness, factuality, factualness, genuineness

credibility, honesty, trustworthiness, truthfulness, veracity

Antonyms of fallacy

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