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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

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]


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. [1913 Webster] To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation. [1913 Webster] Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance. --Bp. Warburton. [1913 Webster] 3. (Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. --Story. [1913 Webster]
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