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Webster 1913 Edition
Falsity
Fal′si-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Falsities
(#)
. 1.
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. South.
2.
That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.
Syn. – Falsehood; lie; deceit.
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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. Webster 1828 Edition
Falsity
FALS'ITY
,Noun.
1.
Contrariety or inconformity to truth; the quality of being false.Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things.
2.
Falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. [This sense is less proper.]Definition 2024
falsity
falsity
English
Noun
falsity (plural falsities)
- (countable) Something that is false; an untrue assertion.
- The belief that the world is flat is a falsity.
- (uncountable) The characteristic of being untrue.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Two, Chapter 9,
- The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of DOUBLETHINK he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.
- The falsity of that statement is easily proven.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Two, Chapter 9,
Usage notes
Instances may be quoted in abundance from old authors to show that the first three words are often strictly synonymous; but the modern tendency has been decidedly in favor of separating them, falsehood standing for the concrete thing, an intentional lie; falseness, for the quality of being guiltily false or treacherous: as, he is justly despised for his falseness to his oath; and falsity, for the quality of being false without blame: as, the falsity of reasoning. — the Century Dictionary, 1911.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
untrue assertion
characteristic of being untrue
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References
- “falsity” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- falsity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “falsity” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- “falsity” in Microsoft's Encarta World English Dictionary, North American Edition (2007)
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)