falseness

How To Use falseness In A Sentence

• 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. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
• 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. The Hotel New Hampshire
• According to what they are, does the trueness or falseness which the idea harbored come to light. Meaning of Truth
• That, alone, which has to be guarded against is the falsity, the instinctive duplicity which _would fain_ regard this antithesis as no antithesis at all: just as Wagner did, — and his mastery in this kind of falseness was of no mean order. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
• I have long thought that the motto 'in vino veritas' contains in it far more of 'veritas' than is dreamt of in most people's philosophy, and that the age of rampant total abstinence is the age of special falseness. My Life as an Author
• a kind of falseness in her, she suffered though she had nothing to blush for; more than once an almost irresistible desire sprang up in her heart to tell everything without reserve, whatever might come of it afterwards. On the Eve
• Never would the gate of heaven be opened to the knock of any inearthed spirit, did not himself make honest the falseness and insincerity of our desires.
• As much as truth may define itself against falseness, at the theater interiority can only be realized as theatricality, subjectivity as impersonation, and authenticity as style.
• After some discussion, the group gives their opinion of the validity or falseness of the disclosure, and the person providing the comment can tell the real story.