'Falsehood' definitions:
Definition of 'falsehood'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting [syn: falsification, falsehood]
Definition of 'Falsehood'
From: GCIDE
- Falsehood \False"hood\, n. [False + -hood]
- 1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. [1913 Webster]
- Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness. [1913 Webster]
- Betrayed by falsehood of his guard. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. [1913 Webster]
- For his molten image is falsehood. --Jer. x. 14. [1913 Webster]
- No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. --Milton.
- Syn: Falsity; lie; untruth; fiction; fabrication. See Falsity. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'falsehood'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- blague,
- canard,
- cock-and-bull story,
- credibility gap,
- deceit,
- dishonesty,
- dissimulation,
- distortion,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- exaggeration,
- fabrication,
- fairy tale,
- fakery,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- feigning,
- fib,
- fibbery,
- fibbing,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- fraud,
- ghost story,
- half-truth,
- inveracity,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- lying,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- mythomania,
- pious fiction,
- pretense,
- prevarication,
- pseudology,
- sham,
- slight stretching,
- story,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- trumped-up story,
- truthlessness,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- unveraciousness,
- white lie,
- yarn