[syn: falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation, refutal]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Falsification \Fal`si*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. falsification.]
1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting;
the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it
is not.
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To counterfeit the living image of king in his
person exceedeth all falsifications. --Bacon.
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2. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.
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Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold
and violent falsification of the doctrine of the
alliance. --Bp.
Warburton.
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3. (Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be
wrong. --Story.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
falsification
n 1: any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of
something [syn: disproof, falsification, refutation]
2: a willful perversion of facts [syn: falsification,
misrepresentation]
3: the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes
(of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting [syn:
falsification, falsehood]
4: the act of determining that something is false [syn:
falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation,
refutal]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "falsification":
abstractionism, coloring, confabulation, deformation, distortion,
equivocation, exaggeration, expressionism, false coloring,
false swearing, falsifying, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy,
injustice, litotes, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdrawing,
mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation,
misstatement, misteaching, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement,
perjury, perversion, prevarication, slanting, straining, twisting,
understatement