Word Meanings - FALSITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South. 2. That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. Men often swallow

Additional info about word: FALSITY

1. The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South. 2. That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. Men often swallow falsities for truths. Sir T. Brown. Syn. -- Falsehood; lie; deceit. -- Falsity, Falsehood, Lie. Falsity denotes the state or quality of being false. A falsehood is a false declaration designedly made. A lie is a gross, unblushing falsehood. The falsity of a person's assertion may be proved by the evidence of others and thus the charge of falsehood be fastened upon him.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FALSITY)

• Error
• Fault
• mistake
• blunder
• falsity
• deception
• fallacy
• untruth
• hallucination
• false
• Untrue
• erroneous
• fallacious
• sophistical
• spurious
• deceptive
• fabrication
• counterfeit
• mendacious
• sham
• mock
• bogus
• unfaithful
• fib
• fiction
• dishonorable
• faithless
• Lie
• Falsehood
• subterfuge
• evasion
• Vanity
• Emptiness
• unsubstantiality
• unreality
• conceit
• self-sufficiency
• ostentation
• pride
• worthlessness
• triviality

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FALSITY)

• Expose
• unmask
• detect

Related words: (words related to FALSITY)

• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• FAITHLESS
  1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• OSTENTATION
  1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to
• BOGUS
  Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• UNFAITHFUL
  1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His
• ERRONEOUS
  1. Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. "Erroneous circulation." Arbuthnot. Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. Sir I. Newman. 2. Misleading;
• SUBTERFUGE
  That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion. Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• VANITY BOX
  A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toilet articles for a woman.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.