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/fˈɔlsəti/ Listen

noun

Falsity n. (pl. falsities)

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. "Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things."

That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. "Men often swallow falsities for truths."

Synonyms: Falsehood; lie; deceit. Falsity, Falsehood, Lie. Falsity denotes the state or quality of being false. A falsehood is a false declaration designedly made. A lie is a gross, unblushing falsehood. The falsity of a person's assertion may be proved by the evidence of others and thus the charge of falsehood be fastened upon him.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... handkerchief and mopped his face. His manner was that of a man who, having heard bad news, has just been assured of its falsity. ...

— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

... brooding over the emptiness of his great triumph. His son the Black Prince had died, cursing the falsity of Frenchmen. England also had gone through the great tragedy of the Black Death and her people, like those of France, had been driven to the point of rebellion—though with them this meant no more than ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

... unequivocally absurd, is a certain notion which I hinted would be found to be inevitably consequent on the foregoing premisses, and whose self-evident falsity carries with it condemnation of the premisses. To say that the creative agency denominated Nature, or by whatever other name known, neither had any ends in view when originally adopting certain sequences of ...

— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton

... the tone which seemed undue, and Mr. Hilton again took mental note. Presently he asked a question, but in such a tone that the Doctor pricked up his ears. There was a premeditated self-suppression, a gravity of restraint, which implied some falsity; some intention other than the ...

— The Man • Bram Stoker

... freer from bigotry or intolerance, though not many can hate falsity and lies more earnestly. The Church of England, he tells me, should be a national church, a church expressing the highest reach of English temperament, with room for all shades of thought. He quotes Dollinger, "No church is so national, so deeply ...

— Painted Windows - Studies in Religious Personality • Harold Begbie

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