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falsehood

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of falsehood

1 a false idea or belief

  • the possibility of a perpetual motion machine is one falsehood that has been disproved by modern physics
Synonyms of falsehood

delusion, error, fallacy, falsity, hallucination, illusion, misbelief, misconception, myth, old wivesʼ tale, untruth
Words Related to falsehood

factoid

superstition

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 falsehood

truth, verity

2 a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

  • several falsehoods in the witnessʼs testimony that may be grounds for perjury
Synonyms of falsehood

fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper
Words Related to falsehood

distortion, exaggeration, half-truth

ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity

defamation, libel, slander

perjury

bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence)

humbug, jive, nonsense

canard, fallacy, misconception, myth

falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence
Near Antonyms of falsehood

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification
Antonyms of falsehood

truth

3 the quality or state of being false

  • scientists eventually demonstrated the falsehood of the claim that prehistoric fish did not evolve lungs and legs
Synonyms of falsehood

erroneousness, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, untruth
Words Related to falsehood

speciousness, spuriousness

deception, deceptiveness, delusion

inaccuracy, incorrectness

dishonesty, mendaciousness, mendacity, untruthfulness
Near Antonyms of falsehood

accuracy, actuality, correctness, factuality, factualness, genuineness

credibility, honesty, trustworthiness, truthfulness, veracity
Antonyms of falsehood

truth, verity

4 the tendency to tell lies

  • a cynic who believes that politics are a veritable fount of falsehood
Synonyms of falsehood

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, mendaciousness, mendacity, untruthfulness
Words Related to falsehood

artifice, craft, craftiness, crookedness, cunning, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, insincerity, trickishness, wiliness

falseness

hypocrisy
Near Antonyms of falsehood

honor, incorruptibility

candidness, candor, frankness, good faith, plainspokenness, sincerity, straightforwardness

dependability, reliability, reliableness, trustworthiness

accuracy, objectivity

authenticity, correctness, genuineness

credibility
Antonyms of falsehood

honesty, integrity, probity, truthfulness, veraciousness, veracity, verity

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