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falsity

[ fawl-si-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural fal·si·ties.

the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
something false; falsehood.

falsity

/ ˈfɔːlsɪtɪ /

Origin of falsity¹

1225–75; Middle English falsete < Anglo-French < Late Latin falsitās. See false, -ity

And now, after 60 years, the disgraceful falsity of the charge has finally been confirmed.

Yet the truth or falsity of the lurid report is almost beside the point.

We trust the judicial process to reach the ultimate conclusions about the truth or falsity of these allegations.

Argument is that form of discourse which has for its object the proof of the truth or falsity of a proposition.

But it is easy to refute all these useless reasonings and to show the falsity of all these evidences.

The actual proceedings of the King in Council prove the injustice and falsity of such insinuations and statements.

It was this which filled the old poets and seers with religious horror; for men dared to suspect the falsity of the sun.

They are not so false as the theory, because nothing can in falsity quite equal that.

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