FALLACY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

Synonyms:

fallacy; false belief

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fallacy" is a kind of...):

misconception (an incorrect conception)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fallacy"):

pseudoscience (an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions)

logical fallacy (a fallacy in logical argumentation)

pathetic fallacy (the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects; 'the friendly sun' is an example of the pathetic fallacy)

sophism; sophistication; sophistry (a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone)

paralogism (an unintentionally invalid argument)

Derivation:

fallacious (containing or based on a fallacy)