sincerity

English

Etymology

From Middle English sinceritie, from Old French sincerité and Medieval Latin sincēritas; both from Latin sincēritas, from sincērus + -tās. Equivalent to sincere +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɪnˈsɛɹəti/
Rhymes: -ɛɹəti
Hyphenation: sin‧cer‧i‧ty
Audio (UK) (file)

Noun

sincerity (countable and uncountable, plural sincerities)

The quality or state of being sincere
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
  I protest, in the sincerity of love.
- c. 1779-1790, Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary
  If the shew of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better

Synonyms

honesty
sincereness

Antonyms

insincerity

Related terms

sincere

Translations

quality of being sincere

Arabic: إِخْلَاص‎ (ar) m (ʾiḵlāṣ)
Azerbaijani: səmimilik, səmimiyyət
Belarusian: шчы́расць f (ščýrascʹ), адкры́тасць f (adkrýtascʹ)
Bulgarian: и́скреност (bg) f (ískrenost)
Catalan: sinceritat f
Cebuano: sinceridad
Chinese:
Mandarin: 真誠 (zh), 真诚 (zh) (zhēnchéng), 真心 (zh) (zhēnxīn), 誠實 (zh), 诚实 (zh) (chéngshí), 真摯 (zh), 真挚 (zh) (zhēnzhì), 誠意 (zh), 诚意 (zh) (chéngyì)
Czech: upřímnost f
Danish: oprigtighed c
Dutch: oprechtheid (nl) f
Esperanto: sincereco
Finnish: rehellisyys (fi), vilpittömyys (fi)
French: sincérité (fr)
German: Aufrichtigkeit (de) f, Ehrlichkeit (de) f
Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍅𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹 f (allawērei), 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (airkniþa)
Greek: ειλικρίνεια (el) f (eilikríneia)
Ancient: ἀφελότης f (aphelótēs)
Hungarian: egyenesség (hu), őszinteség (hu)
Italian: sincerità (it) f
Japanese: 誠実 (ja) (せいじつ, seijitsu), 誠意 (ja) (せいい, seii)
Khmer: ភាពស្មោះ (phiəpsmɑh)
Korean: 성실(誠實) (ko) (seongsil), 성의(誠意) (ko) (seong'ui)
Latin: sincēritās f
Macedonian: искреност f (iskrenost)
Malayalam: ആത്മാർത്ഥത (ātmāṟtthata)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: oppriktighet m or f
Polish: szczerość (pl) f
Portuguese: sinceridade (pt) f
Romanian: sinceritate (ro) f
Russian: и́скренность (ru) f (ískrennostʹ), открове́нность (ru) f (otkrovénnostʹ), че́стность (ru) (čéstnostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: и̏скрено̄ст f
Roman: ȉskrenōst (sh) f
Slovak: úprimnosť f
Slovene: iskrenost f
Spanish: sinceridad (es) f
Swedish: uppriktighet (sv) c
Thai: ความจริงใจ (th)
Turkish: samimiyet (tr)
Ukrainian: щи́рість f (ščýristʹ), відве́ртість f (vidvértistʹ)
Vietnamese: sự chân thành (vi)
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