Thesaurus:falsehood

Thesaurus

falsehood

English

Noun

Sense: the quality of being false

Synonyms

• falsedom
• falsehood
• falsity
• falseness
• terminological inexactitude (idiomatic euphemism)
• untruth

Antonyms

• correctness
• truth    [⇒ thesaurus]
• truthfulness
• veracity    [⇒ thesaurus]
• verity

Various

• erroneous
• nonsense    [⇒ thesaurus]
• truthiness
• truthlikeness
• verisimilitude
• wikiality

Sense: a false statement

Synonyms

• disinformation
• fabrication
• falsehood
• falsity
• fib
• leasing
• lie    [⇒ thesaurus]
• misinformation
• misstatement
• untruth
• yed

Antonyms

• truth    [⇒ thesaurus]
• veracity    [⇒ thesaurus]
• verity

Related terms

• equivocation
• error    [⇒ thesaurus]
• factoid
• fairy tale
• fiction
• misconception
• nonsense    [⇒ thesaurus]
• prevaricate

See also

• Thesaurus:false
• Thesaurus:lie

Further reading

• “falsehood” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “untruth” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “falsehood” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.