Meanings
plural falsifications
- countableuncountableThe act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
Lenin's retroactive view of history was of course nothing in comparison to the systematic falsification of Stalin's day, when it had to be shown at all costs that the current assessment of individuals and political movements was equally valid for all past years.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5231 more example
The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only been by a good deal of deliberate mystification and falsification that this derivation has been kept out of sight.
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 19 - countableuncountableThe act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounany evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
nouna willful perversion of facts
nounthe act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
nounthe act of determining that something is false
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic تَزْيِيف
- تَزْيِيف (tazyīf)the act of making false
Bulgarian фалшифика́ция, изопаче́ние
- фалшифика́ция (falšifikácija)the act of making false
- изопаче́ние (izopačénie)intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation
Catalan falsificació
- falsificacióthe act of making false
Chinese Mandarin 偽造 /伪造
- 偽造 /伪造 (wěizào)the act of making false
Czech falšování
- falšováníthe act of making false
Dutch vervalsen
- vervalsenthe act of making false
Esperanto falsado
- falsadothe act of making false
Estonian võltsing
- võltsingthe act of making false
Finnish väärentäminen, väärennys
- väärentäminenthe act of making false
- väärennysthe act of making false
- vääristelyintentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation
French falsification
- falsificationthe act of making false
German Fälschung, Falsifikation
- Fälschungthe act of making false
- Falsifikationthe act of making false
Japanese 偽造, 改竄
- 偽造 (gizō)the act of making false
- 改竄 (kaizan)the act of making false
Korean 위조
- 위조 (wijo)the act of making false
Māori tahuperatanga, whakatapehatanga
- tahuperatangathe act of making false
- whakatapehatangathe act of making false
- aweketangathe act of making false
- aweketangaintentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation
Polish fałszowanie, fałszerstwo
- fałszowaniethe act of making false
- fałszerstwothe act of making false
- falsyfikacjathe act of making false
Portuguese falsificação, falsidade
- falsificaçãothe act of making false
- falsidadeintentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation
Russian фальсифика́ция
- фальсифика́ция (falʹsifikácija)the act of making false
Slovak falšovanie
- falšovaniethe act of making false
Spanish falsificación
- falsificaciónthe act of making false
Turkish sahtecilik
- sahtecilikthe act of making false
Ukrainian фальсифіка́ція
- фальсифіка́ція (falʹsyfikácija)the act of making false
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with falsification
Cite this entry
falsification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/falsification
“falsification.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/falsification. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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