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falsification
  1. the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not
  2. knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation
  3. showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong
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  5. Examples:
    1. “By the same token, it could be said, historical falsification is bound up with efforts to obscure an understanding of the present.”
      “He would need to show a willful mendacity, an intention to deceive by deliberate falsification.”
      “Anybody gainsaying General Relativity had best demonstrate an unambiguous reproducible falsification.”
falsehood
  1. (uncountable) The property of being false.
  2. (countable) A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie
  3. (archaic, rare) Mendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of a person who is mendacious and deceitful.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “I want you to think about that and promise me that you will not spread the falsehood about your father.”
      “Looking about my full sitting room, I had to admit that I couldn't wallow in the falsehood that I was alone and unloved.”
      “Lerner and Miller also acknowledge the falsehood of this belief, though they point out that it may serve a valuable function in motivating behavior and avoiding a sense of helplessness.”
falsity
  1. (countable) Something that is false; an untrue assertion.
  2. (uncountable) The characteristic of being untrue.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Complainants would bear the burden of proving falsity or unfairness.”
      “They show no devious falsity on the surface, and often they describe life and human beings in a plausible way.”
      “The whole story he told us was a falsity.”
falsificationism
  1. (epistemology) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
falsing
  1. false decoding (by a telecommunications decoder)
falsie
  1. (plural) a false eyelash, used as a cosmetic enhancement
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The first coat separates and lengthens and the second coat creates that voluminous falsie effect.”
falsificator
  1. (archaic) A falsifier; a person who falsifies or forges something.
falsificationist
  1. An advocate of falsificationism.
falsary
  1. (obsolete) A falsifier of evidence.
falsifiability
  1. The quality of being falsifiable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It certainly includes his notion of falsifiability, but it is hardly coextensive with it.”
      “Only universal claims are susceptible to the application of modus tollens that underlies falsifiability.”
      “According to Popper, it is the falsifiability of a theory which makes it scientific, the more falsifiable the better.”
falshood
  1. Obsolete spelling of falsehood
falseness
  1. The characteristic of being false.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The falseness of the witness's testimony became apparent when conflicting evidence was presented.”
      “Deceiving his partner with numerous lies and secret affairs, his falseness led to the ultimate downfall of their relationship.”
      “Despite his charming demeanor, his falseness quickly became apparent when he shared confidential information with his colleagues.”
false
  1. One of two options on a true-or-false test.
falsifier
  1. One that falsifies.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He was not a genuinely scrupulous historian but a falsifier and propagandist.”
      “The writer who does not respect her is a falsifier, and the painter or sculptor who departs from her is a dabbler.”
      “It is astonishing how fully Providence sometimes squares accounts with the falsifier.”
falsificationists
  1. plural of falsificationist
falsifiabilities
  1. plural of falsifiability
falsifications
  1. plural of falsification
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Numerous falsifications, voter intimidation and a vicious propaganda campaign have prevailed in the first round.”
      “The levels of falsifications by job applicants in the industry are alarming.”
      “There are deliberate falsifications, fabrications and deliberate omissions.”
falsificators
  1. plural of falsificator
falsehoods
  1. plural of falsehood
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The politician was telling so many falsehoods that his mendaciloquence was finally recognized by the voters and he lost the election.”
      “Were I lying, then I would simply bestow upon you some vague time in the future, so as to draw things out for pretenses and falsehoods.”
      “The newspaper has portrayed itself as a victim of misinformation, as though a conveyor of falsehoods has scant responsibility.”
falsifiers
  1. plural of falsifier
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  3. Examples:
    1. “People capable of speaking such things are falsifiers, pedants, or simply don't want to look the real situation in the face.”
      “These data are then passed to the falsifiers who manufacture wonderful official documents so that they can be used to identify oneself.”
      “Fabricators and falsifiers in the sciences originate their frauds alone.”
falsenesses
falshoods
  1. plural of falshood
falsaries
  1. plural of falsary
falsities
  1. plural of falsity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Jessica is miles above the ordinary tricks and wiles and falsities of women.”
      “As they are of this character, even when they come into the other life, they are greatly infested there by evils and falsities.”
      “In the meantime, by being generally condemned as falsities, they will not be essentially damaged as truths.”
falsies
  1. plural of falsie
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Crawford worried that she looked flat-chested in her bedridden scenes, so she began wearing larger falsies.”
      “Crawford worried that she looked flat-chested in her bedridden scenes so she began wearing larger falsies.”
      “While celebs rely on fake lashes to get the look, falsies aren't practical for everyday.”
falses
  1. plural of false
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