FALLACY Synonyms

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

• a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea

• the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

• a change for the worse

• a shape resulting from distortion

• an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

• a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

• a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

• inadvertent incorrectness

• a misconception resulting from incorrect information

• (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

• departure from what is ethically acceptable

• (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

• part of a statement that is not correct

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• writing in a fictional form

• the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

• the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

• the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

• result of a fallacy or error in reasoning

• a false statement

• the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

• an erroneous mental representation

• something many people believe that is false

• the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• the quality of being inaccurate and having errors

• lack of conformity to social expectations

• the quality of not conforming to fact or truth

• the quality of being inexact

• an incorrect conception

• a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

• an understanding of something that is not correct

• part of a statement that is not correct

• identify incorrectly

• to make a mistake or be incorrect

• a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

• a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

• a false statement

• the quality of being untruthful

• An erroneous belief

• A heresy; an unorthodox belief