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" Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."
Miguel de Cervantes

Meaning of "falsehood" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF FALSEHOOD

ˈfɔːlsˌhʊd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FALSEHOOD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Falsehood is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FALSEHOOD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

False

False or falsehood may refer to: ▪ False ▪ Lie or falsehood, a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement ▪ Falsity or falsehood, in law, deceitfulness by one party that results in damage to another ▪ Falsies padding for use in a brassiere to create the appearance of larger breasts ▪ FALSE, a programming language ▪ false, a Unix command ▪ False, an album by Gorefest ▪ Matthew Dear or False, American DJ and producer ▪ Falsehood, a 2001 American short film starring Marie-Noelle Marquis...

Definition of falsehood in the English dictionary

The first definition of falsehood in the dictionary is the quality of being untrue. Other definition of falsehood is an untrue statement; lie. Falsehood is also the act of deceiving or lying.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FALSEHOOD

adulthood · brotherhood · fatherhood · girlhood · goddesshood · godhood · hardihood · jealoushood · likelihood · livelihood · motherhood · neighborhood · neighbourhood · novicehood · personhood · priesthood · singlehood · sisterhood · toddlerhood · womanhood

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FALSEHOOD

false positive · false pregnancy · false pretences · false relation · false ribs · false saffron · false scorpion · false start · false step · false teeth · false topaz · false vampire · false-card · false-hearted · falseface · falsely · falseness · falsers · falsetto · falsework

WORDS THAT END LIKE FALSEHOOD

apehood · associated statehood · boyhood · childhood · creaturehood · gentlehood · hood · malicious falsehood · manhood · pagehood · parenthood · peoplehood · popehood · princehood · smokehood · squirehood · statehood · swinehood · thanehood · wifehood

Synonyms and antonyms of falsehood in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FALSEHOOD»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «falsehood» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «falsehood» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF FALSEHOOD

Find out the translation of falsehood to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of falsehood from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «falsehood» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

谎言
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

falsedad
570 millions of speakers
en

English

falsehood
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

झूठ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الباطل
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

ложь
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

falsidade
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

মিথ্যা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

mensonge
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kepalsuan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Lüge
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

うそ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

거짓
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Cidra
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nối láo
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பொய்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

खोटेपणा
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

yalan
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

falsità
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

fałsz
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

брехня
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

minciună
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψεύδος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

leuens
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

falskhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

løgn
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of falsehood

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FALSEHOOD»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of falsehood
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «falsehood».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about falsehood

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «FALSEHOOD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word falsehood.
1
Henri Frederic Amiel
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
2
Abu Bakr
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
3
Hosea Ballou
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
4
Hosea Ballou
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
5
Niels Bohr
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
6
Charles D. Broad
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
7
Miguel de Cervantes
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
8
Anthony Collins
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
9
Aleister Crowley
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
10
Gilles Duceppe
It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FALSEHOOD»

Discover the use of falsehood in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to falsehood and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Double Falsehood: Third Series
Plays, playscripts.
William Shakespeare, Brean Hammond, 2010
2
Falsehood in War Time: Containing an Assortment of Lies ...
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
Arthur Ponsonby, 2013
3
Truth Vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference
Truth and Reality, Dr Hawkins states, have no secrets and everything that exists now or in the past - even a thought - is identifiable and calibratable from the omnipresent field of Consciousness itself.
David R. Hawkins, 2014
4
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes ...
An award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media.
Nick Davies, 2011
5
Punjab, the knights of falsehood
On the political insurgency in Punjab.
Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, 1997
6
Truth and Falsehood: An Inquiry into Generalized Logical Values
Here is a thoroughly elaborated logical theory of generalized truth-values, presenting the idea of a trilattice of truth values a specific algebraic structure with information ordering and two distinct logical orderings, one for truth and ...
Yaroslav Shramko, Heinrich Wansing, 2011
7
Double Falsehood Or the Distressed Lovers
This classic book contains the famous play, Double Falsehood; Or, the Distresses Lovers, published by Lewis Theobald but written by William Shakespeare.
W. Shakespeare, 2011
8
Falsehood Disguised: Unmasking the Truth in La Rochefoucauld
In other words, truth can be unmasked successfully only after falsehood in one or more of its many forms has been identified and denounced as such. Although La Rochefoucauld rarely uses the term mask, his work is full of imagery that ...
Richard G. Hodgson, 1999
9
The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of ...
The claims made for television when it was a fledgling industry in the early 1950s have virtually all proven false.
Ian I. Mitroff, Warren G. Bennis, 1993
10
The Liar's Tale: A History of Falsehood
In an incisive inquiry into the nature of deception, the author of Grammatical Man offers a provocative debate about the nature of truth and ethics, the diverse faces and devices of falsehood, and the postmodern emphasis on meaning at the ...
Jeremy Campbell, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FALSEHOOD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term falsehood is used in the context of the following news items.
1
MLS Will Ride The USWNT's Coattails By Having Floats In Victory …
It's all to further the falsehood that MLS and U.S. Soccer are synonymous with soccer itself, and that if you enjoy watching our international ... «Deadspin, Jul 15»
2
All Trump all the time: How The Donald achieved media domination
Although in a subsequent call to the Post's Robert Costa, Trump backed off the falsehood charge, saying that Priebus told him, “You know, if it ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
3
Misleading Article Leaves Officials Upset
It's just complete falsehood." Bertsch agrees,"It's just bad information. I'm not sure where they got their information and they just put out a bad ... «Valley News Live, Jul 15»
4
MainJudaismElijah and Moses: The Traits of Leadership
The source of falsehood must be annihilated immediately, replaced with the truth of God. The desire to reorient the situation is the source of this ... «Arutz Sheva, Jul 15»
5
Tiny cemetery in Salem is resting place for four teen boys
Most boys were there for “idleness, truancy, falsehood and theft,” according to a written history of the institution, which also was called Oregon ... «Statesman Journal, Jul 15»
6
Strauss: MLB shouldn't fall for Pete Rose's hustle
Pete Rose: My Prison Without Bars copped to what Rose previously insisted was a falsehood, that he violated baseball's prohibition against ... «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
7
A mural in the name of peace
I want to invite the world to join us on Saturday to celebrate the passing of racism, bigotry, fear and historical falsehood while embracing the ... «Miami Herald, Jul 15»
8
Websites can create outrageous lies just for clicks, but why and how …
... been increasing as websites such as newslo.com intentionally blur the lines between news, satire, entertainment and downright falsehood. «The Independent, Jul 15»
9
US has become a nation of pretenders
Another falsehood is that anyone can be whatever sex they want to be at any given time, or can be in a marriage relationship no matter what ... «Monroe News Star, Jul 15»
10
The battle over Harper Lee's sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird
... of current events, the wording is startling, “Rest assured, as long as I am alive, any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood”. «The Australian Women's Weekly, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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