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UNTRUTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does untruth mean?
• UNTRUTH (noun)
The noun UNTRUTH has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNTRUTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A false statement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("untruth" 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 "untruth"):
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)
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