MISINFORMATION Synonyms
There are 2 hypernyms of the word misinformation. (close relations)
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| deceit | nounn | |||||
noun • the quality of being fraudulent • a misleading falsehood • the act of deceiving | ||||||
| deception | nounn | |||||
noun • a misleading falsehood • the act of deceiving • an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | ||||||
| disinformation | nounn | |||||
noun • misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) | ||||||
| distortion | nounn | |||||
noun • a change for the worse • a shape resulting from distortion • an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image • a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal) • the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean • the mistake of misrepresenting the facts | ||||||
| fabrication | nounn | |||||
noun • a deliberately false or improbable account • writing in a fictional form • the act of making something (a product) from raw materials • the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) • the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | ||||||
| fallacy | nounn | |||||
noun • a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning | ||||||
| falsehood | nounn | |||||
noun • a false statement • the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | ||||||
| falsity | nounn | |||||
noun • the state of being false or untrue • a false statement | ||||||
| fiction | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
noun • a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact • a deliberately false or improbable account | ||||||
| inaccuracy | nounn | |||||
noun • the quality of being inaccurate and having errors | ||||||
| misrepresentation | nounn | |||||
noun • a misleading falsehood • a willful perversion of facts | ||||||
| myth | nounn | |||||
noun • a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people | ||||||
| untruth | nounn | |||||
noun • a false statement | ||||||
| misreporting | nounn | |||||
verb • To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. noun • Incorrect reporting | ||||||
| mythomania | nounn | |||||
noun • A compulsion to tell lies and exaggerate the truth. | ||||||
