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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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