falsity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fal=si=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

falsity, n. [L. falsitas: cf. F. fausseté, OF. also, falsité. See False, a.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.  [1913 Webster]

  "Men often swallow falsities for truths."

Syn. -- Falsehood; lie; deceit.

THESAURUS

falsity

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

ROGET THESAURUS

falsity

Falsehood

N falsehood, falseness, falsity, falsification, deception, untruth, guile, lying, untruth, guile, lying, misrepresentation, mendacity, perjury, false swearing, forgery, invention, fabrication, subreption, covin, perversion of truth, suppression of truth, suppressio veri, perversion, distortion, false coloring, exaggeration, prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud, suggestio falsi, mystification, simulation, dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, blague, sham, pretense, pretending, malingering, lip homage, lip service, mouth honor, hollowness, mere show, mere outside, duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug, jesuitism, jesuitry, pharisaism, Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy, crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry, gammon, bun-kum, bumcombe, flam, bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery, Judas kiss, perfidy, il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti, unfairness, artfulness, misstatement, false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless, unfair, uncandid, hollow-hearted, evasive, uningenuous, disingenuous, hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior, forsworn, artificial, contrived, canting, hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical, tartuffish, Machiavelian, double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing, Janus faced, smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, plausible, mealy-mouthed, affected, collusive, collusory, artful, perfidious, spurious, untrue, falsified, covinous, falsely, a la tartufe, with a double tongue, silly, blandae mendacia lingua, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, I give him joy that's awkward at a lie, la mentira tiene las piernas cortas, O what a goodly outside falsehood hath.