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untruism

noun

Etymology

From untrue + -ism.

  1. inherited from *untriwwiz✻
  2. inherited from *untriuwī✻
  3. inherited from untrīewe
  4. inherited from untrewe
  5. suffixed as untruism — “untrue + ism”

Definitions

  1. Something not true

    Something not true; a false statement.

    • Parmenides' philosophy rests, if I am right, on an untruism; it is some slight consolation that his was by no means the last system to be built on such a sandy foundation.
    • This fickle oscillation is often precipitated by the chameleon-like quality of 'untruisms': 'An untruism is an ambiguous sentence

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for untruism. 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