falsification

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Etymology

From false +‎ -ification.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

falsification (countable and uncountable, plural falsifications)

1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 19:

     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.

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

Translations

the act of making false

Arabic: تَزْيِيف m (tazyīf) Belarusian: фальсіфіка́цыя f (falʹsifikácyja) Bulgarian: фалшифика́ция (bg) f (falšifikácija) Catalan: falsificació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 偽造 / 伪造 (zh) (wěizào) Czech: falšování n Dutch: vervalsen (nl) Esperanto: falsado Estonian: võltsing French: falsification (fr) f Georgian: ფალსიფიკაცია (palsipiḳacia), გაყალბება (gaq̇albeba) German: Fälschung (de) f, Falsifikation (de) f Ido: falsigo (io) Japanese: 偽造 (ja) (gizō), 改竄 (ja) (kaizan) Korean: 위조(僞造) (ko) (wijo) Maori: tahuperatanga, whakatapehatanga, aweketanga Polish: fałszowanie (pl) n, fałszerstwo (pl) n, falsyfikacja (pl) f Portuguese: falsificação (pt) f Russian: фальсифика́ция (ru) f (falʹsifikácija) Slovak: falšovanie n Spanish: falsificación (es) f Turkish: sahtecilik (tr) Ukrainian: фальсифіка́ція (uk) f (falʹsyfikácija)

intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation

Azerbaijani: saxtakarlıq Bulgarian: изопаче́ние (bg) n (izopačénie) Maori: aweketanga Ottoman Turkish: یالان (yalan) Portuguese: falsidade (pt) f

showing an item of charge in account to be wrong

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Romanian: denaturare (ro) (1, 2), falsificare (ro) (1, 2)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

falsification f (plural falsifications)

1. falsification

Further reading

• “falsification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• officialisant