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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

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

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

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

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

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

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