falsity (redirected from falsities)

fal·si·ty  (fôls-t)

n. pl. fal·si·ties

1. The quality or condition of being false.

2. Something false; a lie.

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falsity [ˈfɔːlsɪtɪ]

n pl -ties

1. the state of being false or untrue

2. something false; a lie or deception

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	falsity - the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" falseness irreality, unreality - the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact spuriousness - state of lacking genuineness the true, trueness, verity, truth - conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"
	2.	falsity - a false statement                     falsehood, untruth statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day" dodging, scheme, dodge - a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery lie, prevarication - a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth fable, fabrication, fiction - a deliberately false or improbable account deception, misrepresentation, deceit - a misleading falsehood contradiction in terms, contradiction - (logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction"

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falsity

noun

1. untruth, deceit, dishonesty, inaccuracy, deception, hypocrisy, treachery, duplicity, unreality, double-dealing, perfidy, mendacity, fraudulence, deceptiveness with no clear knowledge of the truth or falsity of the issues involved

2. lie, fraud, cheating, deception, porky (Brit. slang), pork pie (Brit. slang) deducing a falsity from two truisms

Translations

falsity [ˈfɔːlsɪtɪ] N → falsedad f

falsity [ˈfɔːlsɪti] n [claim, statement] → fausseté f

falsity

n (= incorrectness) → Unrichtigkeit f; (= artificiality: of smile) → Falschheit f; (= unfaithfulness) → Treulosigkeit f