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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not..
The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only been by a good deal of deliberate mystification and falsification that this derivation has been kept out of sight.
Use falsification when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Falsification means The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not..
Common synonyms include refutation, misrepresentation, falsehood, refuting.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only been by a good deal of deliberate mystification and falsification that this derivation has been kept out of sight.
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