FALSIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does falsification mean? 

• FALSIFICATION (noun)
  The noun FALSIFICATION has 4 senses:

1. any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something

2. a willful perversion of facts

3. the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

4. the act of determining that something is false

  Familiarity information: FALSIFICATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

disproof; falsification; refutation

Hypernyms ("falsification" is a kind of...):

evidence; grounds (your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falsification"):

reductio; reductio ad absurdum ((reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction)

confutation (evidence that refutes conclusively)

counterexample (refutation by example)

Derivation:

falsify (prove false)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A willful perversion of facts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

falsification; misrepresentation

Hypernyms ("falsification" is a kind of...):

actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falsification"):

distortion; overrefinement; straining; torture; twisting (the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean)

equivocation; tergiversation (falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language)

fabrication; lying; prevarication (the deliberate act of deviating from the truth)

deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving)

Derivation:

falsify (insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby)

falsify (falsify knowingly)

falsify (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)

falsify (tamper, with the purpose of deception)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

falsehood; falsification

Hypernyms ("falsification" is a kind of...):

dishonesty; knavery (lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falsification"):

frame-up; setup (an act that incriminates someone on a false charge)

sophistication (falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies)

forgery (criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud)

Derivation:

falsify (tamper, with the purpose of deception)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of determining that something is false

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

disproof; falsification; falsifying; refutal; refutation

Hypernyms ("falsification" is a kind of...):

determination; finding (the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation)

 Context examples 

Having counted our funds, and reduced to order a great mass of unintentional confusion in the first place, and of wilful confusion and falsification in the second, we take it to be clear that Mr. Wickfield might now wind up his business, and his agency-trust, and exhibit no deficiency or defalcation whatever.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I found that my services were constantly called into requisition for the falsification of business, and the mystification of an individual whom I will designate as Mr. W. That Mr. W. was imposed upon, kept in ignorance, and deluded, in every possible way; yet, that all this while, the ruffian—HEEP—was professing unbounded gratitude to, and unbounded friendship for, that much-abused gentleman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)