Definition for Falsehood:

• The quality of being false; want of truth; want of honesty; deceitfulness; false appearance; imposture; an untrue assertion; a lie.

Synonyms for Falsehood:

• n.

  •
  • imaginings,
  • fantasy.
  •
  • true.
  •
  • correct.
  •communication (noun)
  • untruth.
  •deception (noun)
  • Double dealing,
  • duplicity,
  • fraudulence,
  • dissimulation,
  • prevarication,
  • trumpery,
  • hypocrisy,
  • deceptiveness.
  •dishonesty (noun)
  • perfidy,
  • indirection.
  •erroneousness (noun)
  • incorrectness.
  •error (noun)
  • slip,
  • inaccuracy,
  • misconstruction,
  • misconception,
  • miscalculation,
  • Misjudgment,
  • misestimation,
  • gaffe,
  • mistake,
  • typo,
  • flaw,
  • aberration,
  • misprint,
  • oversight,
  • fault,
  • defect,
  • distortion,
  • blunder.
  •exaggeration (noun)
  • tall story,
  • hogwash,
  • Hyperbolism,
  • tall talk.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • phoniness,
  • deceit,
  • crookedness,
  • false statement,
  • delusion.
  •lie (noun)
  • fakery,
  • fibbery,
  • feigning,
  • fallaciousness,
  • equivocation,
  • yarn.
  •misrepresentation (noun)
  • false colors.
  •untruth (noun)
  • malarkey,
  • baloney,
  • balderdash,
  • rubbish,
  • rot.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fish story,
  • hokum,
  • mirage,
  • cock-and-bull story,
  • canard,
  • phantasmagoria,
  • misinformation,
  • simulation,
  • disinformation,
  • white lie,
  • Phantasm,
  • half-truth,
  • simulacrum.
  •
  • tall tale,
  • perjury,
  • fraud,
  • pretense,
  • apparition,
  • bluff,
  • bull.
  •
  • sham.
  •
  • fancy.
  •
  • line.
  •Other relevant words:
  • fish tale,
  • farrago,
  • untrue,
  • excuse,
  • palliate,
  • fraudulent,
  • mendaciousness,
  • layer,
  • misinterpretation,
  • hollow,
  • deceitfulness,
  • mollify,
  • legal fiction,
  • evasiveness,
  • consider,
  • confabulation,
  • fake,
  • fictitious,
  • slander,
  • dissembling,
  • affectedness,
  • dishonest,
  • false swearing,
  • Misreport,
  • deceptive,
  • reckon,
  • draw,
  • aspersion,
  • guile,
  • disingenuousness,
  • inapplicable,
  • hypocritical,
  • stigma,
  • Fictitiousness,
  • imaginary,
  • disloyal,
  • coax,
  • cunning,
  • Blague,
  • cover up,
  • slur,
  • mitigate,
  • Leasing,
  • deceitful,
  • Misbelief,
  • hallucination,
  • crammer,
  • inept,
  • incongruous,
  • artificial,
  • forgery,
  • Refutal,
  • myth,
  • entice,
  • insinuation,
  • twister,
  • soothe,
  • innuendo,
  • infer,
  • blot,
  • mendacious,
  • libel,
  • behind ones back,
  • funny money,
  • assume,
  • taradiddle,
  • believe,
  • novel,
  • fibbing,
  • refutation,
  • smirch,
  • treacherousness,
  • inappropriate,
  • contradiction,
  • calumny,
  • cram,
  • presume,
  • trickery,
  • alibi,
  • Flam,
  • conception,
  • faithlessness,
  • treacherous,
  • flimflam,
  • craft,
  • construction,
  • farfetched story,
  • insincerity,
  • history,
  • lying,
  • unreal,
  • untruthful,
  • bounce,
  • surmise,
  • pacify,
  • not real,
  • guess,
  • misquotation,
  • allegory,
  • spurious,
  • tarradiddle,
  • suspect,
  • finesse,
  • suppose,
  • aggravation,
  • smear,
  • ghost story,
  • imposition,
  • falsifying,
  • mythomania,
  • fairy tale,
  • insincere,
  • Pseudology,
  • false,
  • borrow,
  • incorrect,
  • illusion,
  • credibility gap,
  • imagine,
  • alleviate,
  • improper,
  • erroneous,
  • counterfeit,
  • speculate,
  • stain,
  • bogus,
  • relieve,
  • misrepresentation,
  • contrivance,
  • unfaithful,
  • Miscitation,
  • knavery,
  • untrueness,
  • perversion,
  • specious,
  • little white lie,
  • disproof,
  • imitation,
  • appease.

Paraphrases for Falsehood:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    untruth.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    false.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    misrepresentation, lie, deceit.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    lying, liar.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    falseness, dishonesty, fallacy, forgery, deception, fake, fabrication, mendacity.

Antonyms for Falsehood:

• n.

  • communication
    truth.
  • lie
    non-fiction, truthfulness, reality, uprightness, frankness, honesty, openness.
  • Other antonyms:
    guilelessness, reliability, good faith, correctness, probity, confirmation, truism, genuineness, objectivity, substantiation, integrity, factualness, sincerity, actuality, simplicity, authentication, credibility, candidness, honor, straightforwardness, authenticity, validation, accuracy, verification, incorruptibility, plainspokenness, veraciousness, reliableness, trustworthiness, dependability.

Homophones for Falsehood:

• flow sheet, flush it, flight, falcate, flecked, fulgid, flake out, fleshed out, flaccidity, foul shot, flyswat, falsity, foliaged, fly sheet, flighted, false teeth, fabulist, follow suit, fluctuate, false oat, flighty, flaccid, flaxseed, flesh out, folic acid, flushed, flag day, felicity, Filicide, Felis Wiedi, felicitate, flyweight, falsetto.

Hypernym for Falsehood:

• n.

  • act
    frame-up, forgery, setup, sophistication.
  • communication
    scheme, deception, dodge, contradiction in terms, contradiction, fable, dodging, fiction, prevarication, lie, misrepresentation, deceit, fabrication.

Hyponym for Falsehood:

• n.

  • act
    knavery, dishonesty.
  • communication
    statement.