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falsity

DEFINITIONS OF: falsity

n the state of being false or untrue

“argument could not determine its truth or falsity”

Synonyms:: falseness

Antonyms:: the true, trueness, truth, verity
conformity to reality or actuality

Types:: spuriousness
state of lacking genuineness

Type of:: irreality, unreality
the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact

n a false statement

Synonyms:: falsehood, untruth

Antonyms:: true statement, truth
a true statement

Types:: show 23 types...; hide 23 types...; dodge, dodging, scheme
a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery; lie, prevarication
a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth; fable, fabrication, fiction
a deliberately false or improbable account; deceit, deception, misrepresentation
a misleading falsehood; contradiction, contradiction in terms
(logic) a statement that is necessarily false; bill of goods
communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable; humbug, snake oil
communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive; antinomy
a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable; paradox
(logic) a statement that contradicts itself; fib, story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle
a trivial lie; jactitation
(law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law); walloper, whopper
a gross untruth; a blatant lie; white lie
an unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite); canard
a deliberately misleading fabrication; half-truth
a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead; facade, window dressing
a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant; exaggeration, magnification, overstatement
making to seem more important than it really is; snow job
a long and elaborate misrepresentation; dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense
pretending with intention to deceive; blind, subterfuge
something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery
verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way; duplicity, fraudulence
a fraudulent or duplicitous representation; equivocation, evasion
a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

Type of:: statement
a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc

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