falseness

  • 1Falseness — False ness, n. The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer s notes; the falseness of a… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2falseness — index bad faith, color (deceptive appearance), counterfeit, deceit, deception, dishonesty, disloyalty, duplicity …

    Law dictionary

  • 3falseness — c.1300, from FALSE (Cf. false) + NESS (Cf. ness) …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 4falseness — falsehood, falseness, falsity The three words, all to do with departure from the truth or what is true, have a considerable overlap in meaning and are sometimes interchangeable. Falsehood is the intentional telling of an untruth, and a falsehood… …

    Modern English usage

  • 5falseness — false ► ADJECTIVE 1) not in accordance with the truth or facts. 2) invalid or illegal. 3) deliberately intended to deceive. 4) artificial. 5) not actually so; illusory: a false sense of security. 6) disloyal. DERIVATIVES …

    English terms dictionary

  • 6falseness — noun see false I …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 7falseness — See falsely. * * * …

    Universalium

  • 8falseness — noun The characteristic of being false …

    Wiktionary

  • 9falseness — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellianism, Prospero, Punic faith, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, aberrancy, aberration, affectation, airiness, ambidexterity, apostasy, appearance, artfulness, artifice, bad faith, bamboozlement, barratry, befooling,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 10falseness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. An erroneous or false idea: erroneousness, error, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, untruth. See CORRECT, TRUE. 2. Betrayal, especially of a moral obligation: disloyalty, faithlessness, false heartedness, falsity,… …

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