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Insincerity

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Property of being insincere, lacking sincerity or truthfulness.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity or ingenuousness; dissimulation; hypocrisy; deceitfulness; duplicity.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical

Word Usage

"We resent what we call insincerity in emotional expression because we fear being ` ` fooled, '' and there are many whose experiences in being ` ` fooled '' chill sympathy with doubt."

Antonym

earnest sincerity

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

untruthfulness

Hyponym

hypocrisy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

dissimulation hypocritical deceitfulness hollowness untrustworthiness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

duplicity dishonesty baseness deceit hypocrisy