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Antonyms for falsity
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : fawl-si-tee |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɔl sɪ ti |
Definition of falsity
Origin :- 1550s, from Old French fauseté (12c., Modern French fausseté), from Late Latin falsitatem (nominative falsitas), from Latin falsus (see false).
- noun dishonesty, deception
- The reason is clear, that he did not believe it: he must have known the falsity of the report.
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
- That is a horrible blasphemy, the falsity of which will be seen in the future.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- The falsity of the charge against Clay has been proved as nearly as a negative can be.
- Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
- There was, in spite of what the girl called her falsity, something generous about her.
- Extract from : « Elsie Marley, Honey » by Joslyn Gray
- But it is not necessary to expose this falsity in its crude and most violent forms.
- Extract from : « Personality in Literature » by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
- The truth or falsity of these stories of the peones I must leave to the inclination of the reader.
- Extract from : « Mexico » by Charles Reginald Enock
- The readiness with which this cry was raised seemed evidence of its falsity.
- Extract from : « Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) » by Charles Morris
- And they play up to our bit of falsity till there is hell to pay.
- Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
- In all this what ‘hypocrisy,’ ‘ambition,’ ‘cant,’ or other falsity?
- Extract from : « Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History » by Thomas Carlyle
- Argumentation is the process of establishing the truth or falsity of a thing.
- Extract from : « Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism » by F. V. N. Painter
Synonyms for falsity
- canard
- cheating
- deceit
- deceptiveness
- disingenuousness
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- erroneousness
- error
- faithlessness
- fake
- fallacy
- falsehood
- fib
- fraud
- fraudulence
- hypocrisy
- inaccuracy
- infidelity
- insincerity
- lie
- mendacity
- misrepresentation
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- prevarication
- sham
- story
- tale
- treachery
- uncandidness
- unfaithfulness
- unreality
- untruth
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