INSINCERITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)