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falsification

noun

Etymology

From false + -ification.

  1. derived from falsō
  2. derived from falser
  3. inherited from falsen
  4. derived from falsus
  5. inherited from fals
  6. inherited from false
  7. suffixed as falsification — “false + ification”

Definitions

  1. The act of falsifying, or making false

    The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

  2. A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.

  3. The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

The neighborhood

Derived

falsificationism, falsificationist

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for falsification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA