FALSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does falsity mean? 

• FALSITY (noun)
  The noun FALSITY has 2 senses:

1. the state of being false or untrue

2. a false statement

  Familiarity information: FALSITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being false or untrue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

falseness; falsity

Context example:

argument could not determine its truth or falsity

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

irreality; unreality (the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact)

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

spuriousness (state of lacking genuineness)

Antonym:

truth (conformity to reality or actuality)

Derivation:

false ((used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful)

false (arising from error)

false (inappropriate to reality or facts)

falsify (falsify knowingly)

falsify (prove false)

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

falsify (tamper, with the purpose of deception)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A false statement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

falsehood; falsity; untruth

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

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

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

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)

Derivation:

false (deliberately deceptive)

false (not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality)

falsify (falsify knowingly)

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

 Context examples 

For example, Boolean operators enable you to test the truth or falsity of conditions, and relational operators let you compare one value to another.

(Mathematical Operator, NCI Thesaurus)

I could heartily wish a law was enacted, that every traveller, before he were permitted to publish his voyages, should be obliged to make oath before the Lord High Chancellor, that all he intended to print was absolutely true to the best of his knowledge; for then the world would no longer be deceived, as it usually is, while some writers, to make their works pass the better upon the public, impose the grossest falsities on the unwary reader.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)