Falsity
['fɔːlsɪtɪ;'fɒlsɪtɪ] or ['fɔlsəti]
Definition
(noun.) the state of being false or untrue; 'argument could not determine its truth or falsity'.
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Definition
(a.) The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.
(a.) That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Falsehood, want of truth, inconformity to fact or truth.
Editor: Rebekah
Examples
- Since no one has stated in the doctrine both its truth and falsity better than Rousseau, we shall turn to him. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But if we are blind to the beauties of truth, it is astonishing that we should not open our eyes to the inconvenience of falsity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Your democracy is an absolute lie--your brotherhood of man is a pure falsity, if you apply it further than the mathematical abstraction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I have just as much right to say that YOUR horse isn't a horse, that it is a falsity of your own make-up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But its influence was greater in destruction of old falsities than in the construction of new ties and associations among men. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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