489 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ fˈaləsi], [ fˈaləsi], [ f_ˈa_l_ə_s_i]

Similar words for fallacy:

• casuistry (noun)
• cognition (noun)
• deception (noun)
• delusion (noun)
• equivocation (noun)
• error (noun)
• falsehood (noun)
• false impression (noun)
• falsity (noun)
• heresy (noun)
• ignis fatuus (noun)
• illusion (noun)
• illusion, misconception (noun)
• misconception (noun)
• old wives' tale (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• sophistry (noun)
• untruth (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for fallacy

Homophones for fallacy

Hypernyms for fallacy

Hyponyms for fallacy

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.
  • misconception (noun)
  • mis constructions,
  • mis-conceptions,
  • mis construction,
  • mis conceptions,
  • mis interpretations,
  • mistaken beliefs,
  • mis-construction,
  • mis-interpretation,
  • mis-conception,
  • mis-constructions,
  • mis interpretation,
  • mis-interpretations,
  • mis conception.
  • old wives' tale (noun)
  • old wives tale,
  • superstitious beliefs,
  • false knowledges,
  • false beliefs.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • fraudulence,
  • casuistry,
  • evasion,
  • heresy,
  • hypocrisy,
  • infidelity,
  • heterodoxies,
  • illusion,
  • falsity,
  • Equivoque,
  • tall story,
  • lore,
  • seemings,
  • false knowledge,
  • deceptiveness,
  • misimpression,
  • agnosticism,
  • nonconformism,
  • Hocuspocus,
  • deception,
  • ignus fatuus,
  • equivocation,
  • paganism,
  • mistaken belief,
  • misconstructions,
  • Eidolon,
  • superstitious belief,
  • uncandidness,
  • falsehood,
  • non-conformity,
  • false belief,
  • fairy story,
  • figment,
  • secularism,
  • Paralogy,
  • misconstruction,
  • misconception,
  • Illusions,
  • false impression,
  • Idolism,
  • incorrectness,
  • iconoclasm,
  • oversubtleness,
  • sectarianism,
  • fairy stories,
  • delusion,
  • heterodoxy,
  • unreality,
  • subtle argument,
  • revisionism,
  • figment of imagination,
  • Ignis Fatuus,
  • Double dealing,
  • paramnesia,
  • error,
  • unrealities,
  • paralogism,
  • Visions,
  • self-deception.
  • sophistry (noun)
  • in-consistencies,
  • paralogies,
  • paralogisms,
  • in consistencies,
  • subtle arguments,
  • in consistency,
  • in-consistency.
  • untruth (noun)
  • fib,
  • rot,
  • rubbish,
  • balderdash,
  • malarkey,
  • baloney,
  • lie.

• Other synonyms:

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

Paraphrases for Fallacy:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    lie.

• Other Related

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

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.