Definition of Falseness

Falseness

The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.

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Falseness Quotations

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Jessamyn West

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Falseness Translations

falseness in German is Halschheit, Falschheit
falseness in Spanish is falsedad
falseness in Swedish is falkskhet

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