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].
