falseness
2
5.8
- noun
- /ˈfɔlsnəs/
:
falsedad
- Her constant falseness soon led her friends to distrust her, as they could no longer be sure of her words.
- truth or falseness
How much, however much he sees through the falseness of the relation.
- How much, however much he sees through the falseness of the relation.
- Maybe I suspected that in my parents, the kind of falseness that upsets me deeply.
- Robbie Suave gave a fantastic talk about the falseness of the whole misinformation kind of industrial complex.
- I'm starting to think of paradoxes and conundrum as like these beautiful things because you, we cannot be baited into the falseness of that dichotomy.
- False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.
Examples
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If all we show is hate and falseness, what kind of people does that make us?
Blog text (34) -
I knelt before it, knowing its falseness.
Fiction book (2000) -
You are real, and I appreciate that in a world full of falseness.
Blog text (23) -
And a big part of what you talk about is the falseness of that, that binary.
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The real problem, as she sees it, had not been brought to her attention at all: falseness.
Fiction book (1995) -
There was a sad, apologistic falseness to them.
Fiction book (2001) -
I've had enough of the falseness of a worn-out relationship.
Blog text (26) -
"The man began to talk about falseness, the false order imposed on a people by tyranny."
Fiction book (1993) -
What has everything to do with it is the truthfulness or falseness of the thing one is being mistaken or deceived about.
Blog text (15) -
Robbie Suave gave a fantastic talk about the falseness of the whole misinformation kind of industrial complex.
Synonyms
46
3.2
Actions like lying, cheating, or stealing
7
9.3
A habit of often telling lies that makes it difficult for people to trust you
6
7.9
A statement or idea that is not true
4
5.6
Not showing true feelings when you speak or act
1
7.9
The state of not being real or true
1
5.4
A state of being not correct based on facts
1
7.0
Saying things that are not true on purpose
1
9.4
The appearance of being true when it is false
1
7.2
A quality that makes something seem true when it is false
1
9.8
A quality that comes from wrong ideas or bad thinking
1
5.2
The state of being wrong or not matching the facts
1
6.9
Dishonest behavior by a person or group
The state of being not real or true
The state of being fake and trying to trick people
A quality of being fake and made to seem real
The quality of making people believe something that is not true
A false, not sincere way of speaking or behaving that hides true feelings
Being probably not true or not from a real source
Antonyms
How False
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Falseness comes from an old Latin word falsus, which means 'deceived' or 'not true'. It shares the same root as false and falsify, so falseness is the quality of being 'not true' or dishonest.