(a.) The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.
(a.) That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.
Example Sentences:
(1) After such an assumption is made it is very difficult to carry out research on whether such prerequisites are true independently of the correctness or falsity these assumptions.
(2) I would like to see more movement on the burden of proof, or as Geoff Robertson calls it , "the presumption of falsity".
(3) London tried to brush them aside expressing the hope in a 1957 white paper on reports of brutality by British forces that it could "rely on the worldwide knowledge of their traditions of humanity and decency to convince the public of the free world of the falsity of allegations".
(4) When the falsity of the allegation became known, Bercow apologised publicly to McAlpine in four tweets between 9 and 12 November and in private letters on 21 November.
(5) To talk of “consequences” is a way to blame the victim, an attempt to clothe brute power in a robe of justice, but the falsity of it all is shown by the hyperbolic language of this primates’ final document: the communique speaks of marriage as a “lifelong union between a man and a woman”, when no one seriously expects the Anglican churches to denounce divorce.
(6) I am confident that in New Zealand my known reputation from my work over many years will provide its own refutation of these falsities.
(7) Falsity, whether about the past or the future, is the raw material from which politicians seek to fashion their personal narratives.
(8) Some were more apparent than real, such as the contrasting (as if a falsity was being shrewdly detected) of the deep seriousness of his public, political utterances with the informal gaiety, even glamour, of his refurbishing of the castle above the Vltava.
(9) I'd like people to think there is no falsity in me because what I do is really my character.
(10) It can be traced back to Karl Jaspers who was the first to mention the three criteria of delusions, which are to be found in the textbooks ever since: (1) certainty, (2) incorrigibility, and (3) impossibility or falsity of content.
(11) 150 subjects in 5 groups (nursery schoolers, preschoolers, first graders, fifth graders, and adults) were presented a series of 8 short puppet plays that systematically varied the presence of absence of the 3 prototype elements: factuality of a statement, the speaker's belief in the factuality or falsity of the statement, and the speaker's intent to deceive the listeners.
(12) Litigation can also be used to pressure employers to provide smoke-free working environments, force retailers to obey laws prohibiting sales to minors, require tobacco companies to abandon "colonialist" Third World marketing practices, publicize the falsity of pseudoscientific industry assertions, and prevent television stations from broadcasting tobacco advertising masquerading as sports events.
(13) "From that date, for these reasons, the falsity of the meaning attributed to the words complained of has been universally accepted and the claimant's [McAlpine's] reputation was, at that date effectively vindicated."
(14) "We are pleased that Express Newspapers have today admitted the utter falsity of the numerous grotesque and grossly defamatory allegations that their titles published about us on a sustained basis over many months.
(15) The new report has several recommendations, including cost-cutting (by capping costs and setting up a fast and cheap libel tribunal) and levelling the playing field (by creating an effective public interest defence and by forcing claimants to prove damage and falsity).
(16) The previous literature has reported that when children are asked to judge the truth or falsity of universally quantified conditional sentences of the form If a thing is P then it is Q they typically give responses, e.g., responding "true" whenever there is a case of P and Q even if there are also cases of P and not-Q.
(17) This order of words, which is normal in Japanese grammar, allowed the ERP waveforms associated with semantic mismatch between the S and O occurring in the middle of the sentence to be separated from those elicited by the decision concerning the sentence's truth or falsity occurring at the end of the sentence.
(18) A jury trial, though, is a full-blooded adversarial affair in which defendants can be aggressively defended and prosecution evidence tested for all to see its truth or falsity.
(19) By the time the true figures appear on the DWP website , and informed commentators can see the falsity, the spin, the old saying applies: "A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on."
(20) "As an expression of its regret, Express Newspapers has agreed to publish front page apologies, acknowledging the falsity of the allegations and reflecting the fact that they should never have been made.
Verity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.
(n.) That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Verity said: "I would imagine that it's not impossible that over time the Wolds will become as well known as the Dales and other parts of Yorkshire … because of the Hockney effect.
(2) Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia by Verity Burgmann and Hans Baer Also from 2012, this book reports on a less well-known part of the movement.
(3) Separately, Verity James, a newsreader for ABC, told reporters she and a female producer were groped by Harris during a radio interview in 2000.
(4) 9.06am BST There are some eternal verities in politics and one of them is that British governments (especially Conservative-led ones) are always fighting a war on red tape.
(5) 2013 Verity Harding, a political adviser to Nick Clegg while he was deputy prime minister, takes a policy role at Google in London.
(6) Instead of a movie actress I once liked mildly for a season or two, I now only see an abstraction of the financial verities of modern movie superstardom.
(7) Martin Donnelly, permanent secretary of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), did not just wake up one morning and, on a whim, write a lengthy and carefully argued defence of the old Whitehall verities.
(8) Photograph: BBC Who knows, younger folk in particular might like hearing what’s really new and vital – especially if offered by dynamic and informed presenters such as Verity Sharp and Ian McMillan who don’t fall back on weary cliches or received opinions to communicate.
(9) Not to be outdone, Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, managed a "bonsoir" and a few "merci beaucoups" and even went for a Gallic kiss on Prudhomme's cheek at the end of the presentation.
(10) The bedroom tones of Verity Sharp and Fiona Talkington have enticed a cult audience to the late-night Radio 3 show, which jumps from Indian classical to American post-rock to British early music with an audacious rapidity that regularly outrages musical purists.
(11) Coalition’s climate policy 'best and most efficient' in the world, says Greg Hunt Read more This mirror reflecting back your own past verities could become a bit of a theme in your prime ministership, with all that you’ve said and all the things that now constrain you.
(12) It’s just part of the culture of the verity of certain things, to hold on to.
(13) On occasion, confirmation by the analyst of the verity of an experience in the patient's early life facilitates the analytic process.
(14) If so, he had done a masterful end-run around all the old verities of our own western economic development theory, systems and experience.
(15) Traditionalists in the Thatcher period clung to the old verities of national identity while struggling with the new, varied face of modern Britain.
(16) This belief has not been subjected to testing in clinical trials or laboratory experiments, and thus becomes a matter of belief rather than of scientific verity.
(17) Verity Lambert [the television producer] had no children of her own and was perhaps not conscious of the problems [facing working mothers], but she just wanted to have women in the workplace and make it possible for them."
(18) Dr Aaminah Verity A doctor of four years, Aaminah is now specialising in tropical medicine and international health in London.
(19) When they say “forget business versus society”, they mean “stop yammering on about human beings and get back to economic verities”.
(20) He's saying, 'Get back to the good old verities, you can't go out because you can't go out because you can't go out.'