falsismn.
/ˈfɔːlsɪz(ə)m//ˈfɒlsɪz(ə)m/ 1. (a) ‘An assertion or statement, the falsity of which is plainly apparent’ (Welsh). (b) A platitude that has not even the merit of being true.The word owes its meaning to the antithesis with truism; hence the two-fold application.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > false assertion > [noun]
suggestionc1380
pretensionc1449
misallegation1591
tort1632
pretence1754
falsism1835
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie > blatant, extravagant
a lie with a latchet1580
rapper1611
banger1657
thumper1660
whisker1668
swinger1671
thwacker1674
strapper1677
volunteer1680
hummer1699
swapperc1700
rouser?1770
plumper1776
whopper1791
bouncer1803
yanker1822
rattler1825
whacker1825
falsism1835
crumper1855
bang1879
out-and-outer1880
big lie1939
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > false proposition, statement, etc.
falsec1380
falsehood1393
falsity1557
paradox1570
slip1579
fallacy1590
falsism1835
unfact1887
1835 J. S. Mill in London Rev. Apr. 103 This dictum..is, as Coleridge would say, a falsism.
1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 209 Books like Mr. Colton's ‘Lacon’—centos of trite truisms and trite falsisms pinched into epigrams.
1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. II. 35 If so, it is a truism; if not, a falsism.
1855 G. H. Lewes Life & Wks. Goethe II. vi. vii. 313 The ideas are no longer novel; they appear truisms or perhaps falsisms.
2. Falsity of representation, conceived as erected into a systematic principle of art.Apparently an isolated use.
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1883 M. Blind Life George Eliot 68 Realism is thus the basis of all Art, and its antithesis is not Idealism but Falsism.
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