All fallacy synonyms

noun fallacy

• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• misinterpretation — An instance of misinterpreting.
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• heresy — opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system.
• paradox — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
• inconsistency — the quality or condition of being inconsistent.
• cavil — If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean that they make criticisms of it that you think are unimportant or unnecessary.
• perversion — the act of perverting.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
• bias — Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing.
• casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• quirk — a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.
• ambiguity — If you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way.
• speciousness — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
• sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
• deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.
• flaw — Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
• misapprehension — misunderstanding.
• aberration — An aberration is an incident or way of behaving that is not typical.
• solecism — a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable and they was.
• preconception — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• illogicality — illogic.
• prejudice — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
• subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
• sophism — a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.
• notion — a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: a notion of how something should be done.
• mistake — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
• faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• inexact — not exact; not strictly precise or accurate.
• invalidity — invalidism.
• quibbling — characterized by or consisting of quibbles; carping; niggling: quibbling debates.
• non sequitur — Logic. an inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premises.
• misconception — an erroneous conception; mistaken notion.
• myth — a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
• error — A mistake.
• misjudgment — An act of misjudging, a mistake in judgment.
• illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• elusion — The act of eluding.
• equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
• erratum — An error in printing or writing.
• erroneousness — The state of being in error; the quality of being erroneous.
• evasion — The action of evading something.