falsehood

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    a false statement
    the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

Word Origin

falsehood (n.)
c. 1300, falshede, "deceitfulness," also "a lie; that which is false," from false + -hood. Formed on the same pattern are Old Frisian falschede, Dutch valschheid, German Falschheit, Swedish falskhet. Former noun forms in English, now extinct, included falsage "wrongdoing" (late 15c.), falsdom "deceitfulness, treachery; a lie" (c. 1300), fals-lek "falsehood" (early 14c.), falsshipe "deceitfulness, dishonesty" (c. 1200).

Antonym

n.

fact truth

Example

1. These are eternal truths about falsehood .
2. The thing that initially excited me was : " ah-ha ! A falsehood ! "
3. And speaking morally , something like cowardice and falsehood ?
4. I am merely playing by a system of rules that cut across truth and falsehood .
5. Did you hurt her feelings or did you spare her and still avoid a falsehood ?

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