FALSITIES Synonyms: 103 Similar and Opposite Words

falsities

noun

plural of falsity

as in delusions

a false idea or belief a papal letter condemning secularism and other movements that the church considered to be falsities of the modern age

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as in lies

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive when questioned by his parents about his drug use, the teenager told one blatant falsity after another

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as in betrayals

the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another despite being offered a fortune to spill the president's secrets, the trusted aide declared that he'd sooner die than be guilty of such falsity

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Recent Examples of falsities Fried fights a good fight against such solipsistic falsities. — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026

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Noun

But a line like that also fleshes out the head-in-the-stratosphere delusions of everyone here.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026
The company has also been sued by the parents of kids who took their own lives, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged suicide and harmful delusions.

— James Peckham, PC Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of delusions

Noun

Someone to blame Burns knows the cost of Salem’s betrayals about as well as anyone.

— Jennifer Byrne, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
For the last three, Corinealdi’s character, Jax, has maneuvered through family and marital stress, thrived against office politics and betrayals, endured a kidnapping, and nearly faced death before pulling through a coma after a near-fatal shooting.

— DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of betrayals

Noun

Ancient myths and modern cinema depict bogs as sinister locales, dangerous to cross, and fatal to get trapped in.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
But in earlier myths, Al Basty was described as a hearth deity and a protector of women in childbirth.

— Yulia Denisyuk, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of myths

Noun

The story gains a sense of momentum and inevitability as these disconnected tales suddenly become part of a continuous thread.

— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
And in 2017, historian Alberto (Carlos González) struggles to figure out how the two preceding tales intersect, stumped until an academic (Glenn Close in a brief, striking cameo) steps in to help.

— Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of tales

Noun

When the team built a setup to directly quantify real-time heat flux alongside electrical output, the theoretical illusions collapsed.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026
The myth goes back 2,000 years and holds that the Parthenon, which sits on the Acropolis overlooking Athens, was intentionally constructed with curves to correct various visual illusions and thus appear straight to the human eye.

— Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of illusions

Noun

Tellingly, the network seemed to know the difference in its official response, acknowledging that the original piece contained errors.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2026
And his stellar defense led the way — 13 outfield assists and no errors in 1,106 innings.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2026

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