falsehood | Definition of falsehood

1 a false idea or belief

the possibility of a perpetual motion machine is one falsehood that has been disproved by modern physics

Synonyms of falsehood

delusion, error, fallacy, falsity, hallucination, illusion, misbelief, misconception, myth, old wives' tale, untruth

Words Related to falsehood

distortion, inaccuracy, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misperception, misunderstanding

misinformation, misknowledge, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

sophism, sophistry

fib, half-truth, lie, story, tale

Antonyms of falsehood

truth, verity

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

several falsehoods in the witness's testimony that may be grounds for perjury

Synonyms of falsehood

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

Words Related to falsehood

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 falsehood

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification

Antonyms of falsehood

truth

3 the quality or state of being false

scientists eventually demonstrated the falsehood of the claim that prehistoric fish did not evolve lungs and legs

Synonyms of falsehood

erroneousness, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, untruth

Words Related to falsehood

speciousness, spuriousness

deception, deceptiveness, delusion

inaccuracy, incorrectness

dishonesty, mendaciousness, mendacity, untruthfulness

Near Antonyms of falsehood

accuracy, actuality, correctness, factuality, factualness, genuineness

credibility, honesty, trustworthiness, truthfulness, veracity

Antonyms of falsehood

truth, verity

4 the tendency to tell lies

a cynic who believes that politics are a veritable fount of falsehood

Synonyms of falsehood

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, mendaciousness, mendacity, untruthfulness

Words Related to falsehood

artifice, craft, craftiness, crookedness, cunning, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, insincerity, trickishness, wiliness

falseness

hypocrisy

Near Antonyms of falsehood

honor, incorruptibility

candidness, candor, frankness,

Synonyms and Antonyms of falsehood

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