fallacy (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *fallacy*:
NOUN	cognition	fallacy, false belief	a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

fallacy > pronunciation
Sounds	fae'lahsiy
Rhymes	absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy...

English > *fallacy*: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
Meaning	A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning.
Synonym	false belief
Narrower	logical fallacy	A fallacy in logical argumentation
	paralogism	An unintentionally invalid argument
	pathetic fallacy	The fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects
	pseudoscience	An activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions / assumptions
	sophism, sophistry, sophistication	A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity / ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
Broader	misconception	An incorrect conception
Spanish	falacia
Catalan	fal·làcia
Adjectives	fallacious	containing or based on a fallacy

HyperDic: fallacy