Definition for Fallacy:

• A deceptive or false appearance; mistake; an unsound method of reasoning.

Synonyms for Fallacy:

• n.

  •
  • perversion,
  • bias,
  • sophism,
  • philosophy,
  • principle,
  • concept,
  • solecism,
  • ideal,
  • inconsistency,
  • prejudice,
  • paradox,
  • artifice,
  • deceit,
  • quibbling,
  • misinterpretation,
  • faith,
  • subterfuge,
  • quirk,
  • belief,
  • quibble,
  • logic,
  • thought,
  • commitment,
  • cavil,
  • erratum,
  • reason,
  • illogicality,
  • ambiguity,
  • theory,
  • sophistry,
  • idea,
  • preconception,
  • invalidity,
  • irrelevancy.
  •
  • mix up.
  •
  • correct,
  • true.
  •casuistry (noun)
  • over subtleness,
  • deceptivenesses,
  • over-subtlenesses,
  • over-subtleness,
  • oversubtlenesses,
  • over subtlenesses.
  •cognition (noun)
  • fallacy.
  •deception (noun)
  • jive,
  • chicane,
  • hogwash,
  • jives,
  • mare's-nest,
  • cover up,
  • fast one,
  • fast shuffle,
  • coverup,
  • feint,
  • chicanes.
  •delusion (noun)
  • mis takes,
  • mis apprehensions,
  • mis-apprehensions,
  • over-sight,
  • mis-takes,
  • over-sights,
  • eidolons,
  • self deceptions,
  • fool paradise,
  • selfdeception,
  • self deception,
  • mis take,
  • mis apprehension,
  • over sights,
  • mis-take,
  • over sight,
  • self-deceptions,
  • eidola,
  • selfdeceptions,
  • fools paradise,
  • mis-apprehension.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • fibbing,
  • quibbling routine,
  • amphibology,
  • double meaning,
  • runaround,
  • tergiversation,
  • dissimulation,
  • equivocality,
  • shufflings.
  •error (noun)
  • distortion,
  • flaw,
  • blunder,
  • misprint,
  • inaccuracy,
  • miscalculation,
  • misestimation,
  • slip,
  • gaffe,
  • Misjudgment,
  • defect,
  • fault,
  • typo,
  • aberration,
  • oversight,
  • mistake.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • falseness,
  • half truth,
  • perjury,
  • fable,
  • Untruism,
  • fallaciousness,
  • half truths,
  • fakery,
  • feigning,
  • mis-statement,
  • misstatement,
  • fibbery.
  •false impression (noun)
  • in-correctness,
  • in-correctnesses,
  • in correctnesses,
  • false-impression,
  • in correctness.
  •falsity (noun)
  • un faithfulnesses,
  • dis-ingenuousness,
  • uncandidnesses,
  • un-reality,
  • un-candidness,
  • un candidness,
  • in sincerities,
  • in fidelity,
  • in-sincerities,
  • un faithfulness,
  • un reality,
  • in-fidelities,
  • in-sincerity,
  • un-candidnesses,
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • in-fidelity,
  • doubledealing,
  • un candidnesses,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • in fidelities,
  • un-faithfulness,
  • un-faithfulnesses,
  • dis ingenuousness,
  • fraudulences,
  • un-realities,
  • in sincerity,
  • un realities.
  •heresy (noun)
  • dis-beliefs,
  • iconoclasms,
  • paganisms,
  • dis sent,
  • non-conformities,
  • non conformity,
  • nonconformisms,
  • dis beliefs,
  • secularisms,
  • hetero-doxy,
  • non-conformisms,
  • dis-belief,
  • dis-sents,
  • hetero doxy,
  • agnosticisms,
  • revisionisms,
  • non-conformism,
  • hetero doxies,
  • dis belief,
  • non conformisms,
  • hetero-doxies,
  • non conformism,
  • dis sents,
  • non conformities,
  • dis-sent,
  • sectarianisms.
  •ignis fatuus (noun)
  • will-o'-the-wisp,
  • will-o'-the-wisps,
  • Will-o-the-wisp.
  •illusion (noun)
  • makebelieve,
  • figment imagination,
  • ignus fatuu,
  • mis-impressions,
  • misimpressions,
  • mis impression,
  • hocus pocus,
  • paramnesias,
  • mis-impression,
  • idolisms,
  • mis impressions.
  •illusion, misconception (noun)
  • faultiness,
  • misconstrual,
  • notion,
  • deviation,
  • untruth,
  • elusion,
  • inexactness.
  •sophistry (noun)
  • in-consistencies,
  • paralogies,
  • paralogisms,
  • in consistencies,
  • subtle arguments,
  • in consistency,
  • in-consistency.
  •superstition (noun)
  • old wives' tale.
  •untruth (noun)
  • fib,
  • rot,
  • rubbish,
  • balderdash,
  • malarkey,
  • baloney,
  • lie.

• Other synonyms:

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  • misapprehension,
  • spuriousness,
  • erroneousness,
  • non sequitur,
  • speciousness.

Paraphrases for Fallacy:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    lie.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    misconception, falsehood, misinterpretation, misapprehension, delusion, mistake, illusion, misunderstanding, error, aberration.

Antonyms for Fallacy:

• n.

  • illusion, misconception
    conformity, meeting, directness, fairness, correction, surety, truthfulness, frankness, fact, right, accuracy, reality, facing, certainty, truth, honesty, openness, sameness, evidence.
  • Other antonyms:
    credibility, genuineness, trustworthiness, actuality, veracity, correctness, factualness.

Fallacy Sentence Examples:

• Until I know this sure uncertainty I'll entertain the offer'd fallacy.

• I only mention this latter point because some outside critics have been bold enough to assert the fallacy in its completeness, proving, as they easily can, that the purchase of a pound of tea or a pint of beer is as great an expense to a man with 10s.

Homophones for Fallacy:

• flag, foliaceous, foliose, flick, folksy, foliage, flush, folk, flack, flies, floccose, flexuous, felis, feel like, false, flesh, flask, fils, fuel gauge, fleshy, falco, flake, flax, flawless, flex, false sago, felucca, flash, file-like, floozie, flakey, Felis Chaus, foolish, flukey, felicia, floozy, fabulous, fleck, floss, filago, fly ash, filch, flashy, flux, fly high, floc, follies, flossy, flock, full house, fall guy, fallacious, falsie, full-size, falls, fleece, fleecy, fluke, folks, flog, flak, fulica, flowage, fluky, flaky.

Hypernym for Fallacy:

• n.

  • cognition
    pathetic fallacy, sophism, sophistication, logical fallacy, sophistry, paralogism, pseudoscience.

Hyponym for Fallacy:

• n.

  • cognition
    misconception.