falsity
Other forms: falsities
A falsity is either a straight-up lie or the fact that something isn’t true. If you fake cry to try and get out of trouble, the falsity of your emotions will get you busted.
Falsity is a word for statements that are false in the sense of being incorrect, untrue, or even dishonest. If you tell a lie, you've told a falsity, which can also be called an untruth or falsehood. Also, falsity can mean the general state of falseness. Con men and other liars often operate in falsity. A spy must use falsity to fool people. The opposite of falsity — or falseness — is truth.
Definitions of falsity
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the state of being false or untrue“argument could not determine its truth or falsity”
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synonyms:
falseness
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a false statement
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Antonyms:
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true statement, truth
a true statement
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types:
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dodge, dodging, scheme
a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
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lie, prevarication
a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
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fable, fabrication, fiction
a deliberately false or improbable account
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deceit, deception, misrepresentation
a misleading falsehood
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contradiction, contradiction in terms
(logic) a statement that is necessarily false
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bill of goods
communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable
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humbug, snake oil
communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
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antinomy
a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable
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paradox
(logic) a statement that contradicts itself
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fib, story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle
a trivial lie
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jactitation
(law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)
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walloper, whopper
a gross untruth; a blatant lie
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white lie
an unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite)
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canard
a deliberately misleading fabrication
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half-truth
a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead
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facade, window dressing
a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
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exaggeration, magnification, overstatement
making to seem more important than it really is
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snow job
a long and elaborate misrepresentation
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dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense
pretending with intention to deceive
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blind, subterfuge
something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
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hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery
verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
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duplicity, fraudulence
a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
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equivocation, evasion
a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
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type of:
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statement
a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
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true statement, truth
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