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UNTRUTHFULNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being untruthful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("untruthfulness" is a kind of...):
dishonesty (the quality of being dishonest)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "untruthfulness"):
equivocation; evasiveness; prevarication (intentionally vague or ambiguous)
falseness; hollowness; insincerity (the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical)
mendacity (the tendency to be untruthful)
Antonym:
truthfulness (the quality of being truthful)
Derivation:
untruthful (not expressing or given to expressing the truth)
