truthfulness

truthfulness

English

Etymology

truthful +‎ -ness

Noun

truthfulness (usually uncountable, plural truthfulnesses)

1. The quality of being truthful
   • 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, History as Literature:

     Many hard-working students, alive to the deficiencies of this kind of romance-writing, have grown to distrust not only all historical writing that is romantic, but all historical writing that is vivid. They feel that complete truthfulness must never be sacrificed to color.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:veracity

Antonyms

• falseness
• untruthfulness

Translations

quality of being truthful

Arabic: صِدْق‎ m (ṣidq) Czech: pravdomluvnost f Finnish: todenmukaisuus (fi), totuudenmukaisuus (fi) French: véracité (fr) f

Macedonian: вистинитост f (vistinitost) Polish: prawdomówność (pl) f Romanian: veridicitate (ro) f Turkish: güvenilirlik (tr)

Further reading

• truthfulness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.