deviation from truth (noun)

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• error — noun Etymology: Middle English errour, from Anglo French, from Latin error, from errare Date: 13th century 1. a. an act or condition of ignorant or imprudent deviation from a code of behavior b. an act involving an unintentional deviation from… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• aberrance — noun State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc …   Wiktionary

• aberrancy — noun Aberrance. A wandering or deviating from the right way; especially, a deviation from truth or rectitude. A little like other men of his temperament, to whom, it is somewhat humiliating to think, the aberrancy of a given love is in itself a… …   Wiktionary

• error — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Deviation from truth Nouns 1. error, fallacy; falsity (see falsehood), untruth; misconception, misapprehension, misunderstanding; inexactness, inaccuracy; anachronism; misconstruction, misinterpretation …   English dictionary for students

• aberration — /æbəˈreɪʃən / (say abuh rayshuhn) noun 1. a lapse from a sound mental state. 2. a momentary departure from a usual practice. 3. deviation from truth or moral rectitude. 4. Astronomy apparent displacement of a heavenly body, due to the joint… …  

• fallacy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. error, flaw, misconception; false meaning. Ant., truth. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An error in reasoning] Syn. inconsistency, illogicality, sophism, sophistry, casuistry, quibble, quibbling, evasion,… …   English dictionary for students

• misstatement — I noun bad reporting, blunder, deceit, deception, deviation from truth, distortion, duplicity, erratum, error, false statement, falsehood, falsification, fiction, imprecision, inaccuracy, incorrect statement, inexactitude, inexactness,… …   Law dictionary

• fallacy — I noun captio, deception, deceptive belief, delusion, deviation from truth, distortion, erroneous reasoning, erroneousness, error, fallacious argument, false appearance, falseness, falsity, faultiness, faulty reasoning, flaw in reasoning,… …   Law dictionary

• heresy — noun (plural sies) Etymology: Middle English heresie, from Anglo French, from Late Latin haeresis, from Late Greek hairesis, from Greek, action of taking, choice, sect, from hairein to take Date: 13th century 1. a. adherence to a religious… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• prevarication — noun /pɹɪvaɹɪˈkeɪʃən/ a) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion. Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls. b) Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness …   Wiktionary

• aberration — noun /ˌæbəˈreɪʃən/ a) The act of wandering from the barn; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. , The aberration of youth b) A partial alienation of reason. , Aberrations from theory …   Wiktionary