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disinformation

disinformation

English

Noun

disinformation ‎(usually uncountable, plural disinformations)

Intentionally false information disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead.

Related terms

disinform

Translations

intentionally false information

Belarusian: дэзінфармацыя f ‎(dezinfarmacyja)
Bulgarian: дезинформа́ция f ‎(dezinformácija)
Catalan: desinformació f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 假情報, 假情报 ‎(jiǎqíngbào), 誤傳 (zh), 误传 (zh) ‎(wùchuán), 誤報, 误报 ‎(wùbào)
Czech: dezinformace f
Dutch: desinformatie (nl) f
Estonian: desinformatsiooni
Finnish: disinformaatio (fi), harhatiedotus
French: désinformation (fr) f
German: Desinformation f
Greek: παραπληροφόρηση (el) f ‎(paraplirofórisi)
Hebrew: דיסאינפורמציה (he) f
Irish: bréagaisnéis f
Italian: disinformazione (it) f
Japanese: 偽情報 ‎(にせじょうほう, nisejōhō), 誤報 ‎(ごほう, gohō)

Lithuanian: dezinformacija
Norwegian:

Bokmål: desinformasjon m

Nynorsk: desinformasjon m
Polish: dezinformacja (pl) f
Portuguese: desinformação f
Russian: дезинформа́ция (ru) f ‎(dezinformácija), де́за (ru) f ‎(déza) (colloquial)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: дезинформација f

Roman: dezinformacija (sh) f
Slovak: dezinformácia f
Slovene: dezinformácija f
Spanish: desinformación (es) f
Swedish: desinformation (sv)
Turkish: dezenformasyon (tr)
Ukrainian: дезінформа́ція f ‎(dezinformácija)

See also

References

↑ “disinformation” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).