falsification
Collocations
2VERB + FALSIFICATION
claimed
FALSIFICATION + NOUN
provocation
Definitions
noun
The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only been by a good deal of deliberate mystification and falsification that this derivation has been kept out of sight.
A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the act of determining that something is false
- falsifying
- disproof
- refutation
- refutal
noun — the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent change
noun — a willful perversion of facts
noun — any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of somethin
- disproof
- refutation
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only
WiktionaryAll the photographs and videos of the aeroplane dropping teddy bears are claimed to be falsification and provocation by Belarusian authorities.
Tatoeba · #1719760The natural scientific method essentially consists not of verification, but falsification: a model is valid as long as it cannot be experimentally refuted.
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