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TRUTHFULNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being truthful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("truthfulness" is a kind of...):
honestness; honesty (the quality of being honest)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "truthfulness"):
sincerity (the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical)
sooth (truth or reality)
veracity (unwillingness to tell lies)
Antonym:
untruthfulness (the quality of being untruthful)
Derivation:
truthful (expressing or given to expressing the truth)
