Dictionary Definition
falsification
Noun
1 any evidence that helps to establish the
falsity of something [syn: disproof, refutation]
2 a willful perversion of facts [syn: misrepresentaation]
3 the act of rendering something false as by
fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or
counterfeiting [syn: falsehood]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
- Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.
- Showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
Translations
- Ido: fals-ig-o
- Romanian: denaturare (1, 2), falsificare (1, 2)
French
Pronunciation
- /fal.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/
- /fal.si.fi.ka.sjO~/
Noun
fr-noun fExtensive Definition
Falsification may mean:
- The act of disproving a proposition, hypothesis, or theory. (See, Validation, Mathematical proof, Falsifiability)
- Forgery, the act of producing something that lacks authenticity with the intent to commit fraud or deception
- Self-falsification, i.e. liar paradox
falsification in German:
Falsifizierung
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abstractionism, coloring, confabulation, deformation, distortion, equivocation, exaggeration, expressionism, false
coloring, false swearing, falsifying, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, injustice, litotes, miscoloring, misconstruction,
misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation,
misstatement,
misteaching,
nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement, perjury, perversion, prevarication, slanting, straining, twisting, understatement