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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | big, fabrication, falsehood, remarkable, story, untruth |
| Main Entry: | mendacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insincerity |
| Synonyms: | deceit, deception, falsehood, falsification, fraud, lie, lying, prevarication, untruth, untruthfulness |
| Antonyms: | sincerity |
| Main Entry: | erroneousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fallacy |
| Synonyms: | error, falsehood, falseness, falsity, inaccuracy, incorrectness, misconception, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, untruth |
| Main Entry: | false impression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misunderstanding |
| Synonyms: | error, fallacy, falsehood, falseness, falsity, inaccuracy, incorrectness, misconception, misinterpretation, mistake, mix-up, untruth |
| Main Entry: | falseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fallacy |
| Synonyms: | erroneousness, error, falsehood, falsity, inaccuracy, incorrectness, misconception, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, untruth, untruthfulness |
| Notes: | a falsehood is a false statement, a lie, or untruth; falseness is the state of being false or untrue |
| Main Entry: | inveracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | aspersion, backbiting, calumniation, calumny, canard, cock-and-bull story, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement, reviling, slander, story, subterfuge, tale, tall story, untruth, vilification, white lie, whopper |
| Main Entry: | speciousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fallacy |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, spuriousness, subterfuge, untruth |
| Main Entry: | spuriousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fallacy |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, subterfuge, untruth |
| Main Entry: | tall talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
| Synonyms: | aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, overstatement, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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