See falsehood in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
An untrue declaration:
canard, cock-and-bull story, falsity, fib, fiction, inveracity, lie2, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth. (Informal) fish story, tall tale. (Slang) whopper. See trueAn erroneous or false idea:
erroneousness, error, fallacy, falseness, falsity, untruth. See correct, trueThe practice of lying:
inveracity, mendacity, perjury, truthlessness, untruthfulness. See true
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