falsification

English

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
• Portuguese: falsidade (pt) f

showing an item of charge in account to be wrong

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Translations to be checked

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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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