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FALSIFICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of determining that something is false
Synonyms:
disproof; falsification; falsifying; refutal; refutation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("falsification" is a kind of...):
determination; finding (the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
Synonyms:
falsehood; falsification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("falsification" is a kind of...):
dishonesty; knavery (lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falsification"):
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)
Derivation:
falsify (tamper, with the purpose of deception)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A willful perversion of facts
Synonyms:
falsification; misrepresentation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("falsification" is a kind of...):
actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falsification"):
distortion; overrefinement; straining; torture; twisting (the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean)
equivocation; tergiversation (falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language)
fabrication; lying; prevarication (the deliberate act of deviating from the truth)
deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving)
Derivation:
falsify (insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby)
falsify (falsify knowingly)
falsify (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)
falsify (tamper, with the purpose of deception)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
Synonyms:
disproof; falsification; refutation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("falsification" is a kind of...):
evidence; grounds (your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falsification"):
reductio; reductio ad absurdum ((reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction)
confutation (evidence that refutes conclusively)
counterexample (refutation by example)
Derivation:
falsify (prove false)
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