distortion vs falsification

falsification vs distortion

distortion and falsification both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
distortion	Yes	No	No	No
falsification	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, falsification is a hypernym of distortion; that is, falsification is a word with a broader meaning than distortion:

distortion: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
falsification: a willful perversion of facts

Other hypernyms of distortion include misrepresentation.

distortion (noun)	falsification (noun)
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean	the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
the mistake of misrepresenting the facts	the act of determining that something is false
a change for the worse	a willful perversion of facts
an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image	any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)
a shape resulting from distortion

Difference between distortion and falsification

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