1. (n.) The quality of being false; contrariety or want of conformity to truth.

2. (a.) That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.

Punic faith aberrancy aberration acting affectation appearance attitudinizing bad faith barratry blague bluff bluffing breach of faith breach of promise breach of trust canard casuistry cheating cock-and-bull story color coloring deceit deceitfulness deception deceptiveness defectiveness delusion dereliction deviancy disaffection disguise dishonesty disingenuousness disloyalty dissemblance dissembling dissimulation distortion errancy erroneousness error exaggeration fabrication facade face fairy tale faithlessness fake fakery faking fallaciousness fallacy false air false front false show falsehood falseness farfetched story farrago fault faultiness feigning feint fib fickleness fiction fish story flam flaw flawedness flimflam four-flushing fraud fraudulence front ghost story gilt gloss half-truth hamartia heresy heterodoxy humbug humbuggery hypocrisy illusion imposture inconstancy infidelity insincerity inveracity legal fiction lie little white lie mala fides masquerade mendaciousness mendacity meretriciousness misapplication misconstruction misdoing misfeasance misinterpretation misjudgment misrepresentation ostentation outward show peccancy perfidiousness perfidy perversion pious fiction playacting pose posing posture pretense pretension pretext prevarication recreancy representation seeming self-contradiction semblance sham show simulacrum simulation sin sinfulness slight stretching speciousness spuriousness story tale tall story tall tale taradiddle trothlessness trumped-up story truthlessness uncandidness unfaith unfaithfulness unloyalty unorthodoxy unsteadfastness untrueness untruth untruthfulness varnish white lie window dressing wrong wrongness yarn