DECEITFULNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being crafty

Synonyms:

craftiness; deceitfulness; guile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("deceitfulness" is a kind of...):

disingenuousness (the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor)

Derivation:

deceitful (marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another)

deceitful (intended to deceive)