falsification vs distortion

distortion vs falsification

falsification and distortion both are nouns.

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

As nouns, distortion is a hyponym of falsification; that is, distortion is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than falsification:

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

Other hyponyms of falsification include overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting, equivocation, tergiversation, fabrication, lying, prevarication, deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation.

falsification (noun)	distortion (noun)
the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting	the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
the act of determining that something is false	the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
a willful perversion of facts	a change for the worse
any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something	an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
	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 falsification and distortion

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