Dictionary Definition
falsity
Noun
1 the state of being false or untrue; "argument
could not determine its truth or falsity" [syn: falseness] [ant: truth]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
Translations
untrue assertion
- Czech: nepravda
characteristic of being untrue
- Czech: nepravdivost
References
- Webster 1828}}
Extensive Definition
A Falsity is a perversion of truth originating in
the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of
another party. Falsity is also a measure of the quality or extent
of the falseness of something.
Counterfeiting
money, or attempting to coin genuine legal tender without due
authorization; tampering with wills, codicils, or such-like legal
instruments; prying into the correspondence of others to their
prejudice; using false weights and measures, adulterating
merchandise, so as to render saleable what purchasers would
otherwise never buy, or so as to derive larger profits from goods
otherwise marketable only at lower figures; bribing judges,
suborning witnesses; advancing false testimony; manufacturing
spurious seals; forging signatures; padding accounts; interpolating
the texts of legal enactments; and sharing in the pretended birth
of supposititious offspring are among the chief forms which this
crime assumes.
External links
falsity in Yiddish: פאלטש
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Punic faith, 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, 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