noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being truthful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
truthfulness
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈtɹuθfəlnəs/
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CMU ARPABET: T R UW1 TH F AH0 L N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
the quality of being truthful
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: untruthfulness
Broader terms: honesty, honestness
Narrower terms: sincerity, sooth, veracity
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English truthful Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English truthfulness From truthful + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: صِدْق (ṣidq) — quality of being truthful
- Czech: pravdomluvnost — quality of being truthful
- Finnish: todenmukaisuus — quality of being truthful
- Finnish: totuudenmukaisuus — quality of being truthful
- French: véracité — quality of being truthful
- Irish: cruinneas — quality of being truthful
- Macedonian: вистинитост (vistinitost) — quality of being truthful
- Polish: prawdomówność — quality of being truthful
- Romanian: veridicitate — quality of being truthful
- Turkish: güvenilirlik — quality of being truthful