falsity
[fawl-si-tee]
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Origin of falsity
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Related Words for falsities
falsehood, duplicity, insincerity, inaccuracy, deceit, mendacity, canard, fake, double-dealing, lie, story, cheating, hypocrisy, fib, sham, prevarication, infidelity, perfidy, fraud, unfaithfulnessExamples from the Web for falsities
Historical Examples of falsities
Jessica is miles above the ordinary tricks and wiles and falsities of women.
A Sheaf of CornMary E. Mann
And any number of falsities can be assumed about God and what He has made.
Carmen ArizaCharles Francis Stocking
Thus truth is simple, and but one; but falsities innumerable.
Essays and MiscellaniesPlutarch
He shows also the fallacies and falsities of opposing testimony.
Certain SuccessNorval A. Hawkins
As they are of this character, even when they come into the other life, they are greatly infested there by evils and falsities.
falsity
- the state of being false or untrue
- something false; a lie or deception
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Word Origin and History for falsities
falsity
1550s, from Old French fauseté (12c., Modern French fausseté), from Late Latin falsitatem (nominative falsitas), from Latin falsus (see false).
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