Lying vs Misinformation - What's the difference?
lying | misinformation |
* 1811 , ,
An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
* Jeremy Taylor
The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
* Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
Information that is incorrect.
As nouns the difference between lying and misinformation
is that lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood while misinformation is information that is incorrect.As a verb lying
is .lying
English
(wikipedia lying)Verb
(head)Sense and SensibilityThe Free Library , Chapter 19:
- Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..
Noun
(en noun)- But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?