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INSINCERITY

Dictionary entry overview: What does insincerity mean?

• INSINCERITY (noun)
The noun INSINCERITY has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: INSINCERITY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• INSINCERITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

insincerity; falseness; hollowness

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

untruthfulness (the quality of being untruthful)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "insincerity"):

hypocrisy (insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have)

Antonym:

sincerity (the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical)

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