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MENDACITY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The tendency to be untruthful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

untruthfulness (the quality of being untruthful)

Antonym:

veracity (unwillingness to tell lies)

Derivation:

mendacious (given to lying)

mendacious (intentionally untrue)

Credits