falseness vs falsehood
Definitions
noun
- the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
- unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
- the state of being false or untrue
Examples
Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate.
The falseness, the unreality of perpetually putting on a public face and concealing personal suffering have clearly taken their toll.
It was the falseness of it that Franny and I noticed: the mannequin's chipped face, the obvious wig, and the stiff, unfleshly bust of the dummy — the fake bosom, the still chest, the rigid waist.
Definitions
noun
- a false statement
- the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
Examples
Only the bishops have retained the augurial staff, called the crosier; which was the distinctive mark of the dignity of augur; so that the symbol of falsehood has become the symbol of truth.
Finally, in the formation of an opinion as to the abstract preferableness of one course of action over another, or as to the truth or falsehood or right significance of a proposition, the fact that the majority of one's contemporaries lean in the other direction is naught, and no more than dust in the balance.
They cannot be sued for libel, malicious falsehood or conspiring to give false evidence.
