'Falsity' definitions:
Definition of 'falsity'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Falsity'
From: GCIDE
- Falsity \Fal"si*ty\, n.;pl. Falsities. [L. falsitas: cf. F. fausset['e], OF. also, falsit['e]. See False, a.]
- 1. The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. [1913 Webster]
- Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. [1913 Webster]
- Men often swallow falsities for truths. --Sir T. Brown.
- Syn: Falsehood; lie; deceit.
- Usage: Falsity, Falsehood, Lie. Falsity denotes the state or quality of being false. A falsehood is a false declaration designedly made. A lie is a gross, unblushing falsehood. The falsity of a person's assertion may be proved by the evidence of others and thus the charge of falsehood be fastened upon him. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'falsity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bad faith,
- barratry,
- blague,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- breach of faith,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- canard,
- casuistry,
- cheating,
- cock-and-bull story,
- color,
- coloring,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defectiveness,
- delusion,
- dereliction,
- deviancy,
- disaffection,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- disingenuousness,
- disloyalty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distortion,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- exaggeration,
- fabrication,
- facade,
- face,
- fairy tale,
- faithlessness,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsehood,
- falseness,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fib,
- fickleness,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flimflam,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- front,
- ghost story,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- half-truth,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- illusion,
- imposture,
- inconstancy,
- infidelity,
- insincerity,
- inveracity,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- mala fides,
- masquerade,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- meretriciousness,
- misapplication,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misrepresentation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- peccancy,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- perversion,
- pious fiction,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prevarication,
- Punic faith,
- recreancy,
- representation,
- seeming,
- self-contradiction,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- slight stretching,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- story,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- trothlessness,
- trumped-up story,
- truthlessness,
- uncandidness,
- unfaith,
- unfaithfulness,
- unloyalty,
- unorthodoxy,
- unsteadfastness,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- varnish,
- white lie,
- window dressing,
- wrong,
- wrongness,
- yarn