Falsification

n.	1.	The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. - Bacon.
	2.	Willful misstatement or misrepresentation. Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance. - Bp. Warburton.
	3.	(Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

Noun	1.	falsification - any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something Synonyms: disproof, refutation
	2.	falsification - a willful perversion of facts Synonyms: misrepresentaation
	3.	falsification - the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting Synonyms: falsehood
	4.	falsification - the act of determining that something is false Synonyms: falsifying, disproof, refutation

abstractionism, coloring, confabulation, deformation, distortion, equivocation, exaggeration, expressionism, false coloring, false swearing, falsifying, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, injustice, litotes, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement, perjury, perversion, prevarication, slanting, straining, twisting, understatement