falsehood

1. A false statement (synset 106769118)
   is a type of: statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
   subtypes:

   • dodge, dodging, scheme - a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
   • lie, prevarication - a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
   • fable, fabrication, fiction - a deliberately false or improbable account
   • deceit, deception, misrepresentation - a misleading falsehood
   • contradiction, contradiction in terms - (logic) a statement that is necessarily false
   same as: falsity, untruth
2. The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting (synset 100752233)
   is a type of: dishonesty, knavery - lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
   subtypes:

   • frame-up, setup - an act that incriminates someone on a false charge
   • sophistication - falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
   • forgery - criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud
   same as: falsification

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