falsitynoun [ U ]
uk/ˈfɒl.sə.ti/us/ˈfɑːl.sə.t̬i/also falseness, formalfalsity noun [ U ] (NOT CORRECT)
the state of not being correct:
Events have shown the falsity of such beliefs.
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Unreal things and unreality
- cloud cuckoo land
- delusion
- delusional
- dummy
- escapism
- false hopes
- 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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falsity noun [ U ] (NOT SINCERE)
disapproving the state of not being sincere or of not expressing real emotions:
Society, he claims, is built on falsity and pretence.
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Affected & insincere
- affectation
- affected
- artificial
- artsy-fartsy
- arty-farty
- cheesy
- forced
- glib
- histrionic
- histrionics
- hokey
- meretricious
- pious
- precocious
- pretension
- pretentious
- pseud
- pseudo-
- slick
- theatrical
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