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Definitions: Falseness |
FalsenessNoun1. The state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity". 2. Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous. 3. The quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "falseness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: FalsenessSynonyms: faithlessness (n), falsity (n), fickleness (n), inconstancy (n), insincerity (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: sincerity (n), truth (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Noun: deception; falseness; untruth; imposition, imposture; fraud, deceit, guile; fraudulence, |
Falsehood | Noun: falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception; untruth; guile; lying; untruth; guile; lying; Verb: misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption; covin. |
Undueness | Falseness; Adjective: emptiness of title, invalidity of title; illegitimacy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Falseness |
| English words defined with "falseness": Cautel ♦ debunking ♦ repudiation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "falseness": Weevil. (references) |
| "Falseness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Falseness" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
falseness | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "falseness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | falsitet (fallacy, falsehood, falsity), pabesi (disloyalty, falsity, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, perjury, recreancy, unfaithfulness). (various references) | |
Arabic | كذب (contradict, deceive, delude, disclaim, dishonesty, fable, falsehood, falsify, falsity, fib, impugn, lie, lying, mendacity, mislead, untruth), زور كذب (falsehood, falsity), عدم إخلاص (insincerity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фалш, нечестност (dishonesty, improbity), невярност (infidelity, inveracity), погрешност (erroneousness, fallaciousness, falsity, illegitimacy, incorrectness, mistakenness, perversity, viciousness), изневяра (adultery, defection, inconstancy, infidelity), двуличие (double dealing, duplicity, hypocrisy). (various references) | |
Czech | falešnost (double dealing). (various references) | |
Finnish | vilpillisyys (deceitfulness, fraudulence), petollisuus (deceitfulness, fraudulence), kavaluus (fraudulence, perfidiousness, treacherousness). (various references) | |
French | fausseté (fallaciousness, fallacy, falsity), infidélité (falsity). (various references) | |
German | falschheit (baseness, deceitfulness, fallaciousness, falsehood, falsity, insincerity, nontruth, phoniness, shoddiness, untruthfulness). (various references) | |
Greek | πλαστότητα (fictitiousness, forgery, spuriousness), απατηλότητα (deceitfulness, fallaciousness, trickiness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hamisság (duplicity, falsity, insincerity, mendacity). (various references) | |
Italian | falsit (deceit, deceitfulness, falsehood, falsity, hollowness, humbug, insincerity, lie, untruth), doppiezza (double dealing). (various references) | |
Manx | neufeerid (insincerity), foalsid (affectation, deceitfulness, fictitiousness, perfidiousness), breagaght (broadness, broadness of yarn, illusiveness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alsenessfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | perfidamente (foul). (various references) | |
Romanian | falsitate (artfulness, cunning, deceitfulness, depth, double dealing, duplicity, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, hollowness, insincerity, mendacity, untruth), pungãşie (confiscation, do, fraud, knavery, rascality, snap, swindle, theft, thievery). (various references) | |
Russian | фальшь. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | netačnost (inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness), licemerstvo (dissemblance, hypocrisy). (various references) | |
Spanish | falsedad (deceit, deceitfulness, falsehood, falsity, mendacity, misrepresentation, paint, phoniness, shiftiness, treachery, untruth). (various references) | |
Swedish | felaktighet (defect, error, faultiness, impropriety, inaccuracy, inaccurary, incorrectness), falskhet (duplicity, falsehood, falsity, fictitiousness, guile, insincerity), lögnaktighet (inveracity, lying, mendacity). (various references) | |
Turkish | yalan (deceit, fabrication, falsehood, fib, flam, gammon, hollow, invention, lie, made up, mendacious, plumper, prevarication, quack, sham, shave, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tell a lie, telltale, untrue, untruth, untruthful), sahtelik (artificiality, disguise, falsehood, falsity, hollowness, spuriousness, untruth). (various references) | |
Ukranian | хибність (falsity), фальшивість. (various references) | |
Welsh | anghywirdeb (deceit, inaccuracy, mistake). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "falseness": falsenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Falseness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flaseness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "falseness" (pronounced 'False"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness, Chasteness, Cheapness, Childness, Chillness, Choiceness, Chopness, Circumspectness, Cleanness, Clearness, Closeness, Coarseness, Coldness, Compactness, Completeness, Conciseness, Concreteness, Condignness, Conjointness, Coolness, Correctness, Corruptness, Coyness, Crankness, Crassness, Crispness, Crossness, Crudeness, Curstness, Curtness, Cuteness, Daftness, Dampness, Darkness, Deadness, Deafness, Dearness, Debauchness, Debonairness, Deepness, Deftness, Demureness, Devoutness, Diffuseness, Diluteness, Dimness, Directness, Direness, Dirkness, Diskindness, Dislikeness, Disperseness, Distinctness, Diverseness, Divineness, Dryness, Dueness, Dulceness, Dullness, Dumbness, Duskness, Erectness, Exactness, Expertness, Expressness, Faintness, Fairness, Falness, Farness, Fastness, Fatness, Featness, Fellness, Ferdness, fewness, fineness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fleetness, Flushness, fondness, forgiveness, forlornness, Forswornness, foulness, frailness, frankness, Freeness, freshness, fullness, gameness, Gastness, gayness, genteelness, Ghastness, Gladness, Glibness, Glumness, Goneness, Goodness, grandness, graveness, grayness, greatness, greenness, grimness, grossness, grotesqueness, Halfness, hardness, harshness, Highness, hirsuteness, hoarseness, hotness, illness, immatureness, immenseness, impureness, incompleteness, incorrectness, incorruptness, indirectness, indistinctness, ineptness, inertness, inexactness, Inexpertness, Infirmness, insaneness, insecureness, Intenseness, intentness, justness, keenness, KINDNESS, lameness, Lankness, largeness, lateness, laxness, leanness, likeness, limpness, litheness, Loathness, Loneness, longness, looseness, loudness, loving-kindness, lowness, madness, matureness, meanness, meekness, Meetness, mildness, minuteness, moistness, Moreness, moroseness, Muchness, Muteness, Nearness, neatness, Newness, Niceness, Nighness, Northness, Numbness, Obeseness, Oblateness, Obliqueness, Obscureness, Obtuseness, Occultness, Oddness, Oldness, Oneness, Opaqueness, Ornateness, Oughtness, Outness, Overfullness, Overgreatness, Overlargeness, Overmuchness, Overthwartness, Paleness, Patness, Pertness, Perverseness, Piedness, Pinkness, Plainness, Platness, Plumpness, Politeness, Poorness, Primeness, Primness, Profaneness, Profoundness, Profuseness, Prolixness, Promptness, Proneness, Proudness, Pureness, Quaintness, Quakness, Queerness, Quickness, rankness, rareness, rashness, Rawness, Recluseness, redness, remissness, Repleteness, richness, rightness, ripeness, robustness, Rotundness, roughness, roundness, sadness, safeness, Sageness, Salineness, Saltness, sameness, saneness, scantness, Scrimpness, secureness, Seedness, Selectness, Selfness, Self-willedness, Sereneness, Setness, sharpness, shortness, shrillness, shyness, sickness, Silkness, Sincereness, slackness, sleekness, slickness, slightness, slimness, Sliness, Slopeness, slowness, slyness, smallness, smartness, smoothness, smugness, snugness, softness, Soleness, Soothness, soreness, soundness, sourness, Southness, spareness, sparseness, squareness, staidness, staleness, Stanchness, Starchness, starkness, Stayedness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stoutness, Straitness, strangeness, strictness, Stuntness, Sublimeness, Submissness, sureness, Swartness, sweetness, swiftness, tallness, tameness, tartness, thickness, thinness, Thwartness, tightness, tiredness, toughness, Trigness, trimness, trueness, Truthness, Underniceness, Undueness, Unfirmness, unharness, unlikeness, Unripeness, Unsadness, Unwellness, vagueness, Vainness, Vastness, Voidness, Wanness, Warmness, Wasteness, Weakness, Weirdness, Westness, Whereness, Whiteness, Wholeness, Wideness, Wildness, Wiseness, Woodness, Wrawness, Wrongness, Wryness, Youngness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-l-n-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: safeness, selfness. | |
-2 letters: flenses, lessens. | |
-3 letters: aneles, easels, feases, fesses, flanes, flense, lasses, leases, lenses, lessen, nesses, senses. | |
-4 letters: alefs, anele, asses, easel, eases, elans, esses, false, fanes, fease, feels, fesse, flans, fleas, flees, lanes, lases, leafs, leans, lease, lenes, lense, safes, sales, sanes, seals, seels, selfs, sensa, sense. | |
-5 letters: alee, alef, ales, anes, ease, eels, elan, else, eses, fane, fans, feal, feel, fees, fens, fess, flan, flea, flee, lane, lase, lass, leaf, lean, leas, lees, lens, less, ness, safe, sale, sals, sane, sans, sass, seal, seas, seel, seen, sees, self, sels, sene. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-l-n-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: flatnesses, halfnesses. | |
+2 letters: aloofnesses, awfulnesses, falsenesses, flakinesses, frailnesses. | |
+3 letters: artfulnesses, facelessness, facilenesses, fallownesses, faultinesses, fearlessness, femalenesses, flabbinesses, flashinesses, flawlessness, formalnesses, lawfulnesses, manfulnesses, selfsameness, shamefulness, tastefulness, wastefulness. | |
+4 letters: balefulnesses, bashfulnesses, carefulnesses, factualnesses, faithlessness, fatefulnesses, faultlessness, fearfulnesses, finicalnesses, gainfulnesses, harmfulnesses, hatefulnesses, masterfulness, painfulnesses, playfulnesses, tactfulnesses, tearfulnesses, wakefulnesses. | |
+5 letters: affectlessness, boastfulnesses, dreadfulnesses, dreamfulnesses, fabulousnesses, facelessnesses, faithfulnesses, familiarnesses, fancifulnesses, fatherlinesses, fathomlessness, fearlessnesses, flawlessnesses, gracefulnesses, gratefulnesses, manifoldnesses, peacefulnesses, selfsamenesses, shamefulnesses, sufferableness, tastefulnesses, thankfulnesses, unlawfulnesses, wastefulnesses, watchfulnesses, wearifulnesses, wrathfulnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 6C 73 65 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .-.. ... . -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101100 01110011 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a l s e n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 006C 0073 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)406778857180718585 |
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