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insincerity

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

Property of being insincere, lacking sincerity or truthfulness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • His insincerity was obvious to all; he was neither honest nor believable.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: falseness, hollowness

Antonyms: sincerity

Broader terms: untruthfulness

Narrower terms: hypocrisy

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English sincerity English insincerity From in- + sincerity.

Across languages

Translations

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: неискреност (neiskrenost) — property of being insincere
  • Chinese Mandarin: 虛偽 /虚伪 (xūwěi) — property of being insincere
  • Czech: neupřímnost — property of being insincere
  • Esperanto: malsincereco — property of being insincere
  • Finnish: epärehellisyys — property of being insincere
  • Galician: insinceridade — property of being insincere
  • German: Unaufrichtigkeit — property of being insincere
  • Greek: ανειλικρίνεια (aneilikríneia) — property of being insincere
  • Hindi: बेईमानी (beīmānī) — property of being insincere
  • Hungarian: őszintétlenség — property of being insincere
  • Japanese: 不誠実 (fuseijitsu) — property of being insincere
  • Macedonian: неискреност (neiskrenost) — property of being insincere
  • Polish: nieszczerość — property of being insincere
  • Romanian: nesinceritate — property of being insincere
  • Russian: неи́скренность (neískrennostʹ) — property of being insincere
  • Turkish: samimiyetsizlik — property of being insincere
  • Ukrainian: нещи́рість (neščýristʹ) — property of being insincere