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falsities

noun

plural of falsity
1
as in delusions
a false idea or belief a papal letter condemning secularism and other movements that the church considered to be falsities of the modern age

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2
as in lies
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive when questioned by his parents about his drug use, the teenager told one blatant falsity after another

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3
as in betrayals
the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another despite being offered a fortune to spill the president's secrets, the trusted aide declared that he'd sooner die than be guilty of such falsity

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Recent Examples of falsities Fried fights a good fight against such solipsistic falsities. — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for falsities
  1. delusions
  2. lies
  3. betrayals
  4. myths
  5. tales
  6. illusions
  7. stories
  8. errors
Noun
  • The Mayo Clinic defines the mental health condition as typically marked by hallucinations, delusions, depression, and mania.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Hill became increasingly paranoid and developed delusions that she was being surveilled.
    — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of delusions
Noun
  • These are two examples of politicians' truths among a plethora of others that are really lies, distortions, deceptions and desecrations of the citizens' trust in them.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Throwing in a few Yiddish words doesn’t make up for your words of lies and self-hate.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of lies
Noun
  • But, politics aside, Bezmozgis set about to study in the best cinematic way possible how personal betrayals can be weaponized by political ideologies.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Viewers unfamiliar with Dostoevsky may struggle to determine which women, flirtations, and betrayals belong to history — and which come from his fiction or are the original work of Szumowska and Englert entirely.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of betrayals
Noun
  • Along with names comes a geography of stories, legends, and myths, sewn into the culture and history of the many people who have lived and live—for now—alongside them.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The origin story from Johnny & Kay’s restaurant Like a lot of iconic dishes, steak de Burgo comes with competing creation myths.
    — Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of myths
Noun
  • Of all the stories and tales that Disney tells so well, perhaps none proved as fanciful, and lasted as long, as the fantasy that Bob Iger was going to retire.
    — Bob Chapek, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Two mysterious drifters never speak; their inner monologues carry us across absurdist one-liners, weird tales, and stream-of-consciousness musings.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of tales
Noun
  • The Hering and Wundt illusions are examples of how straight lines can appear curved if intersecting lines cross them at a certain angle.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • In each case, however, modern physics has shown these assumptions to be illusions.
    — Adam Frank, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of illusions
Noun
  • Makary's time at the agency was defined by scientific disputes, leadership changes and a string of media stories detailing low morale and internal dysfunction among staffers.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Movies bring audiences across the country the unique magic of sitting with their neighbors to see extraordinary stories told on the big screen at their local cinema.
    — Paul Gunsky, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of stories
Noun
  • Georgia needed only 24 offensive plays to storm out to a 28-0 halftime lead as its defense forced and feasted on Oklahoma errors.
    — Mike Griffith, AJC.com, 27 Sep. 2026
  • However, doing so degrades the signal and leads to data-reading errors.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
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“Falsities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsities. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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