TRUTHFULNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)