disinformation

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌdɪsɪnfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˌdɪsɪnfɚˈmeɪʃən/
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• Canada, General-American: /dɪsˌɪnfɚˈmeɪʃən/
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• Australian: /ˌdɪsɪnfəˈmæɪʃ(ə)n/
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• Queensland Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH0 Z IH2 N F ER0 M EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Composed of dis- + information. Attested in the sense “intentional misinformation” in English from 1939. A different usage of disinformation occurred earlier, as early as 1887, as a simple synonym of misinformation.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: dezinformacion — intentionally false information
• Arabic: مَعْلُومَات مُضَلِّلَة (maʕlūmāt muḍallila) — intentionally false information
• Armenian: ապատեղեկատվություն (apateġekatvutʻyun) — intentionally false information
• Azerbaijani: dezinformasiya — intentionally false information
• Belarusian: дэзінфарма́цыя (dezinfarmácyja) — intentionally false information
• Belarusian: дэзынфарма́цыя (dezynfarmácyja) — intentionally false information
• Bulgarian: дезинформа́ция (dezinformácija) — intentionally false information
• Catalan: desinformació — intentionally false information
• Chinese Mandarin: 假情報 /假情报 (jiǎ qíngbào) — intentionally false information
• Chinese Mandarin: 訛傳 /讹传 (échuán) — intentionally false information
• Chinese Mandarin: 謊報 /谎报 (huǎngbào) — intentionally false information
• Czech: dezinformace — intentionally false information
• Danish: misinformation — intentionally false information
• Dutch: desinformatie — intentionally false information
• Estonian: desinformatsioon — intentionally false information
• Finnish: disinformaatio — intentionally false information
• Finnish: harhatiedotus — intentionally false information
• French: désinformation — intentionally false information
• French: mésinformation — intentionally false information
• Georgian: დეზინფორმაცია (dezinpormacia) — intentionally false information
• German: Desinformation — intentionally false information
• Greek: παραπληροφόρηση (paraplirofórisi) — intentionally false information
• Hebrew: דִּיסְאִינְפוֹרְמַצְיָה (disinformátsya) — intentionally false information
• Hindi: दुस्सूचना (dussūcnā) — intentionally false information
• Hindi: दुष्प्रचार (duṣpracār) — intentionally false information
• Hungarian: dezinformáció — intentionally false information
• Hungarian: félrevezetés — intentionally false information
• Indonesian: disinformasi — intentionally false information
• Irish: bréagaisnéis — intentionally false information
• Irish: bréageolas — intentionally false information
• Italian: disinformazione — intentionally false information
• Italian: controinformazione — intentionally false information
• Italian: misinformazione — intentionally false information
• Japanese: 偽情報 (nisejōhō) — intentionally false information
• Japanese: 誤報 (gohō) — intentionally false information
• Kazakh: дезинформация (dezinformasiä) — intentionally false information
• Khmer: ព័ត៌មានមិនពិត (pɔədɑɑmiən mɨn pɨt) — intentionally false information
• Korean: 역정보 (yeokjeongbo) — intentionally false information
• Korean: 오보 (obo) — intentionally false information
• Kyrgyz: дезинформация (dezinformatsiya) — intentionally false information
• Latvian: dezinformācija — intentionally false information
• Lithuanian: dezinformacija — intentionally false information
• Macedonian: дезинформација (dezinformacija) — intentionally false information
• Malay: maklumat palsu — intentionally false information
• Malay: disinformasi — intentionally false information
• Norwegian Bokmål: desinformasjon — intentionally false information
• Norwegian Nynorsk: desinformasjon — intentionally false information
• Persian: دروغرسانی (dorôġ-resâni) — intentionally false information
• Persian: دروغپراکنی (dorôġ-parâkani) — intentionally false information
• Polish: dezinformacja — intentionally false information
• Portuguese: desinformação — intentionally false information
• Romanian: dezinformație — intentionally false information
• Romanian: dezinformare — intentionally false information
• Russian: дезинформа́ция (dezinformácija) — intentionally false information
• Russian: де́за (déza) — intentionally false information
• Serbo-Croatian: дезинформа́ција — intentionally false information
• Serbo-Croatian: dezinformácija — intentionally false information
• Slovak: dezinformácia — intentionally false information
• Slovene: dezinformácija — intentionally false information
• Spanish: desinformación — intentionally false information
• Swedish: desinformation — intentionally false information
• Tajik: маълумоти дурӯғ (ma'lumot-i durüġ) — intentionally false information
• Tajik: дуруғрасонӣ (duruġrasoni) — intentionally false information
• Turkish: dezenformasyon — intentionally false information
• Turkmen: dezinformasiýa — intentionally false information
• Ukrainian: дезінформа́ція (dezinformácija) — intentionally false information
• Ukrainian: дезінформува́ння (dezinformuvánnja) — intentionally false information
• Uzbek: dezinformatsiya — intentionally false information