Misrepresentation, perversion or suppression of truth.
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Primary Base | psewd* |
Cross-Reference
* | Affectation | Effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; pretense of actual possession; conspicuous artificiality of manner or appearance; effort to attract notice by falsehood, assumption, or any assumed peculiarity. |
* | Hypocrisy | False piety. |
* | Propaganda | False education. |
Siblings
* | Affirmation | Assertion of existence, truth or goodness. |
cel* | Concealment | Causation of latency. |
lewh* | Deception | Misleading by false or untrue appearance or statement. |
fater* | Disclosure | Removal of latency. |
alm* | Education | Development of knowledge or skill. |
* | Exaggeration | Expansion beyond the limits of truth or reason. |
* | Examination | Evaluation of learning. |
psewd* | Falsehood | Misrepresentation, perversion or suppression of truth. |
* | Information | |
* | Latency | Presence without visibility; existance as potential; lack of expression. |
math* | Learning | Passive education. |
fend* | Manifestation | |
bewd* | Messenger | Agent of delivering information. |
* | Misteaching | |
neq* | Negation | |
* | Publication | |
* | Secret | Object of concealment. |
* | Teacher | Agent of teaching. |
* | Teaching | Active education. |
verew* | Untruth | Absence, lack or void of truth. |
genw* | Veracity | |
Notes
Falsehood synonyms
Falseness; falsity, falsification; untruthfulness; guile; lying &c. v., misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption; covin [archaic].
perversion, distortion, false coloring; exaggeration [See Exaggeration]; prevarication, equivocat on, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud; mystification (concealment) [See Concealment]; simulation (imitation) [See Imitation]; dissimulation, dissembling; deceit; blague [F.].
SHAM, pretense, pretending, malingering.
DUPLICITY, double dealing, insincerity, tartufism or tartuffism, hypocrisy, cant, humbug, fake [colloq. or slang]; casuistry, jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, “organized hypocrisy”; hollowness; quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon [colloq.], buncombe or bunkum, flam; bam [slang], flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy (bad faith) [See Improbity].
UNFAIRNESS (dishonesty) [See Improbity]; artfulness (cunning) [See Cunning]; missatement (error) [See Error].