Falsity

Word FALSITY
Character 7
Hyphenation fal si ty
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Falsity"

What do we mean by falsity?

The quality or condition of being false. noun

Something false; a lie. noun

The character of being false; contrariety or nonconformity to truth or fidelity; falseness. noun

That which is false; a falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. noun

Synonyms Falsity, etc. (see falsehood); incorrectness, erroneousness, fallaciousness. noun

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. noun

That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. noun

Something that is false; an untrue assertion. noun

The characteristic of being untrue. noun

The state of being false or untrue noun

A false statement noun

Something that is false; an untrue assertion.

The characteristic of being untrue.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Falsity

The word "falsity" in example sentences

The final paragraph was cut for space — it's not absolutely necessary, but I liked the comparison: “In opera buffa, it usually ends when all the falsity is discovered,” Ganz goes on, “like the end of ‘Figaro,’ where everything is revealed, and all is happy.” ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

In every litigated case, the parties disagree about whether the falsity is literal or only implicit. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

BTW, actual falsity is not required for a perjury conviction under 18 USC § 1621. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unless you get rid of the Lanham Act and the FTC, kicking Kasky out of the running still leaves Nike subject to a plain falsity/misleadingness standard in its ads. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

Literal falsity is a dandy doctrine because it provides a way to end litigation quickly: judicial economy. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

The denizens of this world are so lost in falsity and nothingness that they convict themselves even in their vain defenses of the disgusting behavior at issue. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Liavek shared-world stories, where one group, originated by Nate Bucklin [markiv1111] believes this to be the case; its truth or falsity is not established. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yet such was her distress I was sorry for her, though I believed it to be rooted and grounded in falsity, and that she had no need to regard with such disapprobation her sister's being indebted to an English gentleman who gave her in all honour the best he had. ❋ Unknown (1900)

All three elements of perjury [1). belief in falsity, 2). under oath, affirmation or penalty of perjury, and 3). materiality] are matters for a jury to determine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its subject idea is therefore an idea of a proposition and its predicate idea is the idea of falsity or lack of truth, i.e., non-truth. ❋ Gerard Varni (2009)

It is also not at all clear that Clinton believed his answers to be false, and it is the belief, as opposed to the actual falsity, that is another essential element of the crime of perjury (strangely enough, in theory one could be prosecuted for a true statement as long as the affiant believed it to be false). ❋ Unknown (2006)

The problem of inductive logic is to determine the actual truth or falsity of propositions: the problem of deductive logic is to determine their relative truth or falsity, that is to say, given such and such propositions as true, what others will follow from them. ❋ St. George William Joseph Stock (N/A)

There was, in spite of what the girl called her falsity, something generous about her. ❋ Joslyn Gray (N/A)

But the kind of falsity which is characteristic of the Bayreuthians is not exceptional to-day. ❋ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1872)

The falsity is the teaching that matter can be conscious; and conscious matter implies pantheism. ❋ Mary Baker Eddy (1865)

Conjunction of evil and falsity, which is opposite to the conjunction of good and truth, will be spoken of elsewhere. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)

The word "myth" plainly connotes falsity, which is what the ❋ Jinxmchue (2009)

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