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INSINCERITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
Synonyms:
falseness; hollowness; insincerity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("insincerity" is a kind of...):
untruthfulness (the quality of being untruthful)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "insincerity"):
hypocrisy (insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have)
Antonym:
sincerity (the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical)
Derivation:
insincere (lacking sincerity)
