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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

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

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

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

Falseness Translations

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


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