FALSIFICATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does falsification mean?
• FALSIFICATION (noun)
The noun FALSIFICATION has 4 senses:
1. any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
2. a willful perversion of facts
3. the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
4. the act of determining that something is false
Familiarity information: FALSIFICATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• FALSIFICATION (noun)
Meaning:
Any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
disproof; falsification; refutation
Hypernyms ("falsification" is a kind of...):
evidence; grounds (your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falsification"):
reductio; reductio ad absurdum ((reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction)
confutation (evidence that refutes conclusively)
counterexample (refutation by example)
Meaning:
A willful perversion of facts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
misrepresentaation; falsification
Hypernyms ("falsification" is a kind of...):
actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falsification"):
deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving)
fabrication; lying; prevarication (the deliberate act of deviating from the truth)
equivocation; tergiversation (falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language)
distortion; overrefinement; straining; torture; twisting (the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean)
Meaning:
The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
falsehood; falsification
Hypernyms ("falsification" is a kind of...):
dishonesty; knavery (lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "falsification"):
frame-up; setup (an act that incriminates someone on a false charge)
sophistication (falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies)
forgery (criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud)
Meaning:
The act of determining that something is false
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
falsifying; refutal; disproof; refutation; falsification
Hypernyms ("falsification" is a kind of...):
determination; finding (the act of determining the properties of something)
