false belief

Questions about false belief

What does false belief mean?

false belief means "a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning".

What is another word for false belief?

Close synonyms include fallacy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is false belief a common word?

false belief is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.