Look up FALSE, false, or falsehood in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. False or falsehood may refer to: False (logic), the negation of truth in classical...

A false positive is an error in binary classification in which a test result incorrectly indicates the presence of a condition (such as a disease when...

A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party. The term...

In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually...

In religion, a false prophet or pseudoprophet is a person who falsely claims the gift of prophecy or divine inspiration, or to speak for God, or who makes...

False imprisonment or unlawful imprisonment occurs when a person intentionally restricts another person's movement within any area without legal authority...

A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are...

False equivalence A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed...

A false premise is an incorrect proposition that forms the basis of an argument or syllogism. Since the premise (proposition, or assumption) is not correct...

The generic name False Dmitry (also Pseudo-Demetrius, Russian: Лжедмитрий, Lžedmitrij) refers to various impostors who passed themselves off as the deceased...

In quantum field theory, a false vacuum is a hypothetical vacuum state that is locally stable but does not occupy the most stable possible ground state...

False advertising is the act of publishing, transmitting, or otherwise publicly circulating an advertisement containing a false claim, or statement, made...

False Hope or False Hopes may refer to: "Hope Torture (False Hope)", a 2013 song by Song Ji-eun from Hope Torture False Hope, a 2017 EP by Kevin Garrett...

False attribution may refer to: Misattribution in general, when a quotation or work is accidentally, traditionally, or based on bad information attributed...

In Marxist theory, false consciousness is a term describing the ways in which material, ideological, and institutional processes are said to mislead members...

The name false morel is given to several species of mushroom which bear a resemblance to the highly regarded true morels of the genus Morchella. Like...

False eyelashes are a cosmetic enhancement attaching synthetic or natural fibers to the eyelids to give the natural eyelashes a fuller, more dramatic...

False pregnancy (or pseudocyesis, from the Greek pseudes "false" and kyesis "pregnancy") is the appearance of clinical or subclinical signs and symptoms...

False coral may refer to many species of snakes, including: several species of the genus Erythrolamprus: Erythrolamprus aesculapii, a mildly venomous...

False cognates are pairs of words that seem to be cognates because of similar sounds and meaning, but have different etymologies; they can be within the...

In logic, false or untrue is the state of possessing negative truth value and is a nullary logical connective. In a truth-functional system of propositional...

In economics, a false economy or hallucinated economy is an action that does save money at the beginning but which, over a longer period of time, results...

False balance, known colloquially as bothsidesism, is a media bias in which journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints...

A false accusation is a claim or allegation of wrongdoing that is untrue and/or otherwise unsupported by facts. False accusations are also known as groundless...

False colors and pseudo colors respectively refers to a group of color rendering methods used to display images in colors which were recorded in the visible...

The phrase false god is a derogatory term used in Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, the Baháʼí Faith, and Islam) to indicate...

Trump made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims. The Washington Post's fact-checkers documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during his...

In computer science, false sharing is a performance-degrading usage pattern that can arise in systems with distributed, coherent caches at the size of...

A false sunrise is any of several atmospheric optical phenomena in which the Sun appears to have risen, but is actually still some distance below the...

A false truffle or a hymenogastrale is any species of fungus that has underground fruiting bodies that produce basidiocarps resembling the true truffles...