falsehood, falsity, untruth, false statement

a false statement

• dodge, dodging, scheme — a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
• lie, prevarication — a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
• fabrication, fiction, fable — a deliberately false or improbable account
• misrepresentation, deceit, deception — a misleading falsehood
• contradiction, contradiction in terms — (logic) a statement that is necessarily false

• statement — a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc