What are some opposite words for falsehood?
Antonyms for falsehood
ˈfɔls hʊdfalse·hood
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Wiktionary
falsehoodnoun
The property of being false.
falsehoodnoun
A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie
Don't tell falsehoods.
falsehoodnoun
Mendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of a person who is mendacious and deceitful.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
falsehood
Deceit is the habit, deception the act; guile applies to the disposition out of which deceit and deception grow, and also to their actual practise. A lie, lying, or falsehood, is the uttering of what one knows to be false with intent to deceive. The novel or drama is not a lie, because not meant to deceive; the ancient teaching that the earth was flat was not a lie, because not then known to be false. Untruth is more than lack of accuracy, implying always lack of veracity; but it is a somewhat milder and more dignified word than lie. Falsehood and lying are in utterance; deceit and deception may be merely in act or implication. Deception may be innocent, and even unintentional, as in the case of an optical illusion; deceit always involves injurious intent. Craft and cunning have not necessarily any moral quality; they are common traits of animals, but stand rather low in the human scale. Duplicity is the habitual speaking or acting with intent to appear to mean what one does not. Dissimulation is rather a concealing of what is than a pretense of what is not. Finesse is simply an adroit and delicate management of a matter for one's own side, not necessarily involving deceit. Compare ARTIFICE; FICTION; FRAUD; HYPOCRISY.
Antonyms:
candor, fair dealing, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth, veracitySynonyms:
craft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, delusion, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fabrication, finesse, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, lie, lying, prevarication, trickery, untruth
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Princeton's WordNet
falsehood, falsity, untruthnoun
a false statement
Antonyms:
true statement, truthSynonyms:
falsity, untruth, falsification, falsenessfalsification, falsehoodnoun
the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
Antonyms:
true statement, truthSynonyms:
refutation, untruth, disproof, falsification, refutal, misrepresentation, falsity, falsifying
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
falsehoodnoun
Synonyms:
inveracity, untruthfulness, lie, fiction, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, canard
How to use falsehood in a sentence?
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
The Hope clinic administrator:
I think that's a total falsehood.
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#854 | fact | |
#2276 | truth | |
#2515 | reality | |
#4193 | honor | |
#10612 | simplicity | |
#13655 | honesty | |
#15144 | authenticity | |
#17844 | correctness | |
#18813 | openness | |
#27844 | sincerity | |
#33034 | verity | |
#41919 | falsehood | |
#44462 | veracity | |
#46855 | candor | |
#85657 | frankness | |
#97212 | genuineness |
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