Dictionary

falsification en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˌfɔːl.sɪf.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

Etymology tree English false Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -ficātiō Old French -ificationbor. Middle English -ificacioun English -ification English falsification From false + -ification.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
   • 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:
   • 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 523:
2. (countable, uncountable) A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

Forms

Deriveds

falsificationist · falsificationism

Relateds

falsify

Translations (38)

cmn 偽造 /伪造 (the act of making false) · pt falsidade (intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation) · et võltsing (the act of making false) · de Falsifikation (the act of making false) · de Fälschung (the act of making false) · io falsigo (the act of making false) · mi whakatapehatanga (the act of making false) · ar تَزْيِيف (the act of making false) · pt falsificação (the act of making false) · mi aweketanga (the act of making false) · ja 偽造 (the act of making false) · az saxtakarlıq (intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation) · mi tahuperatanga (the act of making false) · pl falsyfikacja (the act of making false) · pl fałszowanie (the act of making false) · bg изопаче́ние (intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation) · bg фалшифика́ция (the act of making false) · fr falsification (the act of making false) · sk falšovanie (the act of making false) · fi vääristely (intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation) · ka გაყალბება (the act of making false) · fi väärennys (the act of making false) · ka ფალსიფიკაცია (the act of making false) · cs falšování (the act of making false) · pl fałszerstwo (the act of making false) · ru фальсифика́ция (the act of making false) · nl vervalsen (the act of making false) · tr sahtecilik (the act of making false) · ko 위조 (the act of making false) · ca falsificació (the act of making false) · be фальсіфіка́цыя (the act of making false) · ja 改竄 (the act of making false) · uk фальсифіка́ція (the act of making false) · ota یالان (intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation) · eo falsado (the act of making false) · mi aweketanga (intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation) · es falsificación (the act of making false) · fi väärentäminen (the act of making false)