falsification
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(noun) the act of determining that something is false |
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Synonyms: confuting, disproving, falsifying, refuting |
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Related Words: determination, finding |
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(noun) a willful act of falsifying |
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Synonyms: falsehood, misrepresentation |
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Related Words: deceit, deception, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, distortion, equivocation, fabrication, forgery, frame-up, knavery, lying, overrefinement, piracy, plagiarisation, plagiarization, prevarication, setup, straining, tergiversation, torture, twisting |
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(noun) any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something |
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Synonyms: disproof, refutation |
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Related Words: confutation, counterexample, evidence, grounds, reductio ad absurdum |
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