falsification

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
noun a willful perversion of facts
noun the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

From false + -ification.

It is a falsification of the gendarme! — By Advice of Counsel, Arthur Cheney Train
In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! — Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If lies were necessary, they would lie; where falsification was wanted, they falsified. — Tristram of Blent: An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House, Anthony Hope

disproof, refutation

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