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falsity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of falsity

1 a false idea or belief

  • a papal letter condemning secularism and other movements that the church considered to be falsities of the modern age
Synonyms of falsity

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

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 falsity

truth, verity

2 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
Synonyms of falsity

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

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 falsity

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

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

truth

3 lack of faithfulness especially to one's husband or wife

  • the falsity of Guinevere usually figures prominently in medieval and modern tellings of the legend of King Arthur
Synonyms of falsity

disloyalty, faithlessness, falseness, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, unfaithfulness
Words Related to falsity

adultery

betrayal, double-cross, double-dealing, duplicity, sellout, treachery, treason

deceit, deception, lying
Near Antonyms of falsity

staunchness, steadfastness

dependability, reliability

honesty, trustworthiness
Antonyms of falsity

allegiance, constancy, devotedness, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, loyalty

4 the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another

  • despite being offered a fortune to spill the presidentʼs secrets, the trusted aide declared that heʼd sooner die than be guilty of such falsity
Synonyms of falsity

backstabbing, betrayal, business, disloyalty, double cross, faithlessness, falseness, infidelity, perfidy, sellout, treachery, treason, two-timing, unfaithfulness
Words Related to falsity

abandonment, desertion

deceit, deception, double-dealing, duplicity, guile, two-facedness

fraud, informing, lying, snitching, talebearing, trickery
Near Antonyms of falsity

dependability, reliability, trustworthiness

defense, protection, safeguard, shield
Antonyms of falsity

allegiance, devotion, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, loyalty, staunchness, steadfastness

5 the quality or state of being false

  • the falsity of Columbusʼs estimate of the earthʼs circumference was pretty much demonstrated when he made a head-on collision with the western hemisphere
Synonyms of falsity

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

speciousness, spuriousness

deception, deceptiveness, delusion

inaccuracy, incorrectness

dishonesty, mendaciousness, mendacity, untruthfulness
Near Antonyms of falsity

accuracy, actuality, correctness, factuality, factualness, genuineness

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

truth, verity

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