falsification — English Dictionary

Noun

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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   The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only been by a good deal of deliberate mystification and falsification that this derivation has been kept out of sight.

   Lenin's retroactive view of history was of course nothing in comparison to the systematic falsification of Stalin's day, when it had to be shown at all costs that the current assessment of individuals and political movements was equally valid for all past years.

2. A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.

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3. The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

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Noun

1. any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something

   Synonyms

   disproofrefutation

   Broader terms

   evidencegrounds

2. a willful perversion of facts

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   misrepresentation

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   wrongdoingwrongful conductmisconductactus reus

3. the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

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   falsehood

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   dishonestyknavery

4. the act of determining that something is false

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   falsifyingdisproofrefutationrefutal

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   determinationfinding