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NOUN
- the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
- unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
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the state of being false or untrue
argument could not determine its truth or falsity
How To Use falseness In A Sentence
- Nietzsche grew to loathe so intensely in Wagner, — viz., his pronounced histrionic tendencies, his dissembling powers, his inordinate vanity, his equivocalness, his falseness. Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
- 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. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
- 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).
- The dialogue between Zarathustra and the Magician reveals pretty fully what it was that Nietzsche grew to loathe so intensely in Wagner, -- viz., his pronounced histrionic tendencies, his dissembling powers, his inordinate vanity, his equivocalness, his falseness. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none
- And this loveliness was of a nature that was altogether pleasing, if once the beholder of it could get over the idea of falseness which certainly Lizzie’s eye was apt to convey to the beholder. The Eustace Diamonds
- If Rick hated anything, it was lies, dissembling, falseness, pretension.
- Many of the characters within the play hide behind a mask of falseness.
- The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
- I've always hated this kind of falseness, preferring instead to try to maintain a realistic view of the world, and I'm sure a lot of others here are the same. Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
- And this loveliness was of a nature that was altogether pleasing, if once the beholder of it could get over the idea of falseness which certainly Lizzie's eye was apt to convey to the beholder. The Eustace Diamonds