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untruth

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of untruth

1 a false idea or belief

  • their argument rests on a fundamental untruth which has long been discredited
Synonyms of untruth

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

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 untruth

truth, verity

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

  • the Web site is rife with untruths and misleading information
Synonyms of untruth

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

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 untruth

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

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

truth

3 the quality or state of being false

  • there is an element of untruth in all forms of art: works of art provide only a semblance of reality
Synonyms of untruth

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

speciousness, spuriousness

deception, deceptiveness, delusion

inaccuracy, incorrectness

dishonesty, mendaciousness, mendacity, untruthfulness
Near Antonyms of untruth

accuracy, actuality, correctness, factuality, factualness, genuineness

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

truth, verity

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