unfactn.
/ˈʌnfakt/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈfakt/, U.S. /ˈənˌfækt/ a. An untruth; a fictitious or mistaken statement.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > false proposition, statement, etc.
falsec1380
falsehood1393
falsity1557
paradox1570
slip1579
fallacy1590
falsism1835
unfact1887
1887 North Star 3 Dec. The astounding statement..was an unfact.
1890 Catholic News 4 Oct. 6/4 We will call this an evangelical unfact.
b. Politics. A fact which is officially denied or disregarded.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > denial or contradiction > [noun] > fact which is officially denied
unfact1954
1954 Economist 18 Sept. 883/2 Beria is already an ‘unperson’, the record of his career ‘unfacts’.
1959 Economist 8 Aug. 329/1 A government founded on the principle of treating as an unfact that bitter sequence of miscalculated events for which its leading members bore..responsibility.
1967 G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 379 Already, under the pressure of different truths, of ‘un-facts’ and history rewritten, the East German language is developing its own jargon and dialect.
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