falsity

[fawl-si-tee]

noun, plural fal·si·ties.

the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
something false; falsehood.

Origin of falsity

1225–75; Middle English falsete < Anglo-French < Late Latin falsitās. See false, -ity

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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, unfaithfulness

Examples 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 Corn
Mary E. Mann
And any number of falsities can be assumed about God and what He has made.
Carmen Ariza
Charles Francis Stocking
Thus truth is simple, and but one; but falsities innumerable.
Essays and Miscellanies
Plutarch
He shows also the fallacies and falsities of opposing testimony.
Certain Success
Norval 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.
Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There
Emanuel Swedenborg

British Dictionary definitions for falsities

falsity

noun plural -ties

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).