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falsity

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fal·si·ty  (fôls-t)
n. pl. fal·si·ties
1. The quality or condition of being false.
2. Something false; a lie.

falsity [ˈfɔːlsɪtɪ]
n pl -ties
1. the state of being false or untrue
2. something false; a lie or deception
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.falsity - the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity"
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.falsityfalsity - a false statement                    
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"

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] Nfalsedad f
falsity [ˈfɔːlsɪti] n [claim, statement] → fausseté f
falsity
n (= incorrectness)Unrichtigkeit f; (= artificiality: of smile) → Falschheit f; (= unfaithfulness)Treulosigkeit f


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Accordingly, whereas we not infrequently have ideas or notions in which some falsity is contained, this can only be the case with such as are to some extent confused and obscure, and in this proceed from nothing (participate of negation), that is, exist in us thus confused because we are not wholly perfect.
Silas might have driven a profitable trade in charms as well as in his small list of drugs; but money on this condition was no temptation to him: he had never known an impulse towards falsity, and he drove one after another away with growing irritation, for the news of him as a wise man had spread even to Tarley, and it was long before people ceased to take long walks for the sake of asking his aid.
The truth or falsity of a statement depends on facts, and not on any power on the part of the statement itself of admitting contrary qualities.
 
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