falsification
nounEtymology From false + -ification.
1
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:
2
A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
3
The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
- Derived terms
- falsificationism, falsificationist
- Related terms
- falsify