'Falsification' definitions:
Definition of 'falsification'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something [syn: disproof, falsification, refutation]
noun
A willful perversion of facts [syn: falsification, misrepresentation]
noun
The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting [syn: falsification, falsehood]
noun
The act of determining that something is false [syn: falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation, refutal]
Definition of 'Falsification'
From: GCIDE
- Falsification \Fal`si*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. falsification.]
- 1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. [1913 Webster]
- To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation. [1913 Webster]
- Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance. --Bp. Warburton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. --Story. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'falsification'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstractionism,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- deformation,
- distortion,
- equivocation,
- exaggeration,
- expressionism,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsifying,
- garbling,
- hyperbole,
- inaccuracy,
- injustice,
- litotes,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misdrawing,
- mispainting,
- misquotation,
- misreport,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misteaching,
- nonrealism,
- overdrawing,
- overstatement,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- prevarication,
- slanting,
- straining,
- twisting,
- understatement