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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
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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
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- fable,
- fabrication,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- fib,
- lie,
- mendacity,
- prevarication,
- story,
- tale,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- untruth,
- whopper
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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
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4
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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5
the quality or state of being false
- the falsity of Columbus's estimate of the earth's circumference was pretty much demonstrated when he made a head-on collision with the western hemisphere
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“Falsity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsity. Accessed 29 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of falsity was in the 13th century
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