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Noun falsification has 4 senses
- disproof, falsification, refutation - any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
--1 is a kind of evidence, grounds
--1 has particulars: reductio ad absurdum, reductio; confutation; counterexample
- falsification, misrepresentaation - a willful perversion of facts
--2 is a kind of wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
--2 has particulars: | distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting; equivocation, tergiversation; lying, prevarication, fabrication; deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation |
- falsification, falsehood - the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
--3 is a kind of dishonesty, knavery
--3 has particulars: frame-up, setup; sophistication; forgery
- falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation - the act of determining that something is false
--4 is a kind of determination, finding
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