falseness

Noun

Meaning

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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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

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

My house has changed a little in the sun. The fragrance of the magnolias come close, False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin. Wallace Stevens

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy. Piero Ferrucci

Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair. Danish Proverb

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