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falsification

noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

the act of determining that something is false

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: falsifying, disproof, refutation, refutal

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: determination, finding

5

noun

Meaning 5

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: falsehood

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dishonesty, knavery

Narrower terms: frame-up, setup, sophistication, forgery

6

noun

Meaning 6

a willful perversion of facts

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: misrepresentation

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus

Narrower terms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting, equivocation, tergiversation, lying, prevarication, fabrication, deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation

7

noun

Meaning 7

any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: disproof, refutation

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: evidence, grounds

Narrower terms: reductio ad absurdum, reductio, confutation, counterexample

History

Etymology

From false + -ification.

Across languages

Translations

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: تَزْيِيف (tazyīf) — the act of making false
  • Belarusian: фальсіфіка́цыя (falʹsifikácyja) — the act of making false
  • Bulgarian: фалшифика́ция (falšifikácija) — the act of making false
  • Catalan: falsificació — the act of making false
  • Chinese Mandarin: 偽造 /伪造 (wěizào) — the act of making false
  • Czech: falšování — the act of making false
  • Dutch: vervalsen — the act of making false
  • Esperanto: falsado — the act of making false
  • Estonian: võltsing — the act of making false
  • French: falsification — the act of making false
  • Georgian: ფალსიფიკაცია (palsipiḳacia) — the act of making false
  • Georgian: გაყალბება (gaq̇albeba) — the act of making false
  • German: Fälschung — the act of making false
  • German: Falsifikation — the act of making false
  • Ido: falsigo — the act of making false
  • Japanese: 偽造 (gizō) — the act of making false
  • Japanese: 改竄 (kaizan) — the act of making false
  • Korean: 위조 (wijo) — the act of making false
  • Māori: tahuperatanga — the act of making false
  • Māori: whakatapehatanga — the act of making false
  • Māori: aweketanga — the act of making false
  • Polish: fałszowanie — the act of making false
  • Polish: fałszerstwo — the act of making false
  • Polish: falsyfikacja — the act of making false
  • Portuguese: falsificação — the act of making false
  • Russian: фальсифика́ция (falʹsifikácija) — the act of making false
  • Slovak: falšovanie — the act of making false
  • Spanish: falsificación — the act of making false
  • Turkish: sahtecilik — the act of making false
  • Ukrainian: фальсифіка́ція (falʹsyfikácija) — the act of making false
  • Azerbaijani: saxtakarlıq — intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation
  • Bulgarian: изопаче́ние (izopačénie) — intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation
  • Māori: aweketanga — intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation
  • Portuguese: falsidade — intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation
  • Ottoman Turkish: یالان (yalan) — intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation