fallacynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfæl.ə.si/us/ˈfæl.ə.si/formalan idea that a lot of people think is true but is in fact false:
[ + that ] It is a common fallacy that women are worse drivers than men.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unreal things and unreality
- cloud cuckoo land
- delusion
- delusional
- dummy
- escapism
- falsity
- fantasy
- fictionalize
- figment
- flight of fancy idiom
- illusion
- la-la land
- make-believe
- never-never land
- phantasm
- pie
- pie in the sky idiom
- pious
- unreal
- untruth
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