Definition for Fallacy:

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

Synonyms for Fallacy:

• n.

  •
  • erratum,
  • cavil,
  • inconsistency,
  • preconception,
  • misinterpretation,
  • prejudice,
  • artifice,
  • quibbling,
  • bias,
  • solecism,
  • quibble,
  • deceit,
  • subterfuge,
  • perversion,
  • invalidity,
  • paradox,
  • quirk,
  • ambiguity,
  • sophism,
  • sophistry,
  • illogicality.
  •deception (noun)
  • hogwash.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • tergiversation.
  •error (noun)
  • distortion,
  • flaw,
  • blunder,
  • misprint,
  • inaccuracy,
  • miscalculation,
  • misestimation,
  • slip,
  • gaffe,
  • Misjudgment,
  • defect,
  • fault,
  • typo,
  • aberration,
  • oversight,
  • mistake.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • falseness,
  • mis-statement,
  • fallaciousness,
  • fable.
  •illusion, misconception (noun)
  • faultiness,
  • misconstrual,
  • notion,
  • deviation,
  • untruth,
  • elusion,
  • inexactness.
  •untruth (noun)
  • fib,
  • rot,
  • rubbish,
  • balderdash,
  • malarkey,
  • baloney,
  • lie.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • misapprehension,
  • spuriousness,
  • erroneousness,
  • non sequitur,
  • speciousness.
  •Other relevant words:
  • empty words,
  • unorthodoxy,
  • Self-contradiction,
  • claptrap,
  • sinfulness,
  • disprove,
  • obfuscation,
  • song and dance,
  • wrongful,
  • subtlety,
  • unfit,
  • phantom,
  • mis-report,
  • fallacious,
  • misinform,
  • spurious,
  • impropriety,
  • delusiveness,
  • wrong,
  • flimflam,
  • dream,
  • pretend,
  • deceive,
  • negative,
  • Elench,
  • Antilogy,
  • break,
  • errancy,
  • logical fallacy,
  • refute,
  • entrapment,
  • erratic,
  • discrepancy,
  • deviancy,
  • human error,
  • amiss,
  • shortcoming,
  • mendacity,
  • mirage,
  • defeat,
  • cant,
  • Peccancy,
  • sophistication,
  • Defrauding,
  • misguided,
  • old wives' tale,
  • misleading,
  • apocryphal,
  • shadow,
  • bamboozlement,
  • mockery,
  • bubble,
  • Kidding,
  • rationalization,
  • betray,
  • vision,
  • hole,
  • loophole,
  • Hysteron Proteron,
  • depart,
  • quodlibet,
  • Bluffing,
  • wrongness,
  • outwitting,
  • exaggeration,
  • circumvention,
  • erroneous,
  • silence,
  • parry,
  • false light,
  • plausibleness,
  • enmeshment,
  • Petitio Principii,
  • Miscomputation,
  • improper,
  • argument,
  • trickiness,
  • argumentum ad hominem,
  • unjust,
  • moonshine,
  • absurdity,
  • hallucination,
  • confute,
  • Redargue,
  • mystification,
  • plausibility,
  • bamboozle,
  • aberrancy,
  • rove,
  • circular argument,
  • Conning,
  • overthrow,
  • expose,
  • fond illusion,
  • idol,
  • sin,
  • confound,
  • shut up,
  • explode,
  • overreaching,
  • rebut,
  • victimization,
  • defectiveness,
  • ensnarement,
  • absurd,
  • insanity,
  • Hylotheism,
  • stumble,
  • Phantasm,
  • inaccurate,
  • roam,
  • circumvent,
  • obscurantism,
  • incorrect,
  • cheat,
  • open one's eyes,
  • Elenchus,
  • Philosophism,
  • truthlessness,
  • have,
  • Tricking,
  • Fooling,
  • jesuitism,
  • thin air,
  • Misdoing,
  • weak point,
  • flimflammery,
  • luminary,
  • delude,
  • mere words,
  • air,
  • mumpsimus,
  • special pleading,
  • wishful thinking,
  • hoodwinking,
  • spoofing,
  • untrueness,
  • defraud,
  • confuse,
  • antinomianism,
  • imagination,
  • demolish,
  • vicious circle,
  • deviate,
  • destroy,
  • untruthfulness,
  • jesuitry,
  • beguile,
  • circularity,
  • laxity,
  • bad,
  • equivocalness,
  • Speciosity,
  • abusive,
  • insincerity,
  • Misbelief,
  • errant,
  • false,
  • err,
  • Quillet,
  • formal fallacy,
  • cloud,
  • Deceiving,
  • Inveracity,
  • swerve,
  • abnormal,
  • Swindling,
  • snow job,
  • invalidate,
  • disconfirm,
  • clinch an argument,
  • hamartia,
  • sell,
  • wander,
  • pantheism,
  • faulty,
  • befooling,
  • deceitfulness,
  • controvert,
  • untrue,
  • begging the question,
  • mislead,
  • misjudgement,
  • dupery,
  • digress,
  • entanglement,
  • misunderstanding,
  • misapplication,
  • perverse,
  • disingenuousness,
  • preposterous,
  • fancy,
  • bogus,
  • vapor,
  • misfeasance.

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.

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.