falsity

/ˈfɔlsəti/

Other forms: falsities

A falsity is either a straight-up lie or the fact that something isn’t true. If you fake cry to try and get out of trouble, the falsity of your emotions will get you busted.

Falsity is a word for statements that are false in the sense of being incorrect, untrue, or even dishonest. If you tell a lie, you've told a falsity, which can also be called an untruth or falsehood. Also, falsity can mean the general state of falseness. Con men and other liars often operate in falsity. A spy must use falsity to fool people. The opposite of falsity — or falseness — is truth.

Definitions of falsity

1. noun

   the state of being false or untrue
   “argument could not determine its truth or falsity”

   synonyms: falseness

   antonyms:

   truth

   conformity to reality or actuality

   types:

   spuriousness

   state of lacking genuineness

   type of:

   irreality, unreality

   the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact
2. noun

   a false statement
   synonyms: falsehood, untruth

   types:

   dodge, dodging, scheme

   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

   deceit, deception, misrepresentation

   a misleading falsehood

   contradiction, contradiction in terms

   (logic) a statement that is necessarily false

   bill of goods

   communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable

   humbug, snake oil

   communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive

   antinomy

   a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable

   paradox

   (logic) a statement that contradicts itself

   fib, story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle

   a trivial lie

   jactitation

   (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)

   walloper, whopper

   a gross untruth; a blatant lie

   white lie

   an unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite)

   canard

   a deliberately misleading fabrication

   half-truth

   a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead

   facade, window dressing

   a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant

   exaggeration, magnification, overstatement

   making to seem more important than it really is

   snow job

   a long and elaborate misrepresentation

   dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense

   pretending with intention to deceive

   blind, subterfuge

   something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

   hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery

   verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

   duplicity, fraudulence

   a fraudulent or duplicitous representation

   equivocation, evasion

   a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

   type of:

   statement

   a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc