'Untruth' definitions:
Definition of 'untruth'
(from WordNet)
noun
Definition of 'Untruth'
From: GCIDE
- Untruth \Un*truth"\, n.
- 1. The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Lie; falsehood. See Lie. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'untruth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- blague,
- canard,
- cock-and-bull story,
- defectiveness,
- delusion,
- deviancy,
- distortion,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- exaggeration,
- fairy tale,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falsehood,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- fib,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flimflam,
- ghost story,
- half-truth,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- illusion,
- inveracity,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- mendacity,
- misapplication,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misrepresentation,
- peccancy,
- perversion,
- pious fiction,
- prevarication,
- self-contradiction,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- slight stretching,
- story,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- trumped-up story,
- truthlessness,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruthfulness,
- white lie,
- yarn