falseness vs falsehood
Definitions
noun
- the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
- unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
- the state of being false or untrue
Examples
Nietzsche grew to loathe so intensely in Wagner, — viz., his pronounced histrionic tendencies, his dissembling powers, his inordinate vanity, his equivocalness, his falseness.
With the mere instinct of femineity she saw the falseness of the assumption that the higher life for man or woman lies in separate and solitary paths through the wilderness of this world.
Consider the risk of not acting: the creeping falseness and constraint that comes of an important unacknowledged truth between you (I know whereof I speak).
Definitions
noun
- a false statement
- the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
Examples
Finally, in the formation of an opinion as to the abstract preferableness of one course of action over another, or as to the truth or falsehood or right significance of a proposition, the fact that the majority of one's contemporaries lean in the other direction is naught, and no more than dust in the balance.
If he come to see me" (as it has always been reckoned a piece of neighbourly kindness to visit the sick) "he speaks vanity; that is, he pretends friendship, and that his errand is to mourn with me and to comfort me; he tells me he is very sorry to see me so much indisposed, and wishes me my health; but it is all flattery and falsehood.
She called the verdict a victory of truth over falsehood.
