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Falsification vs Counterfeiting - What's the difference?

falsification | counterfeiting |

As nouns the difference between falsification and counterfeiting

is that falsification is the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not while counterfeiting is the act of one who counterfeits.

As a verb counterfeiting is

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falsification

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not
  • knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation
  • showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong

    • counterfeiting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who counterfeits.
  • * Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
    • Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward)