sincerity

English

Etymology

From Middle French sincérité, from Latin sinceritas, sinceritatem, from sincerus + -tas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪnˈsɛɹəti/
• Rhymes: -ɛɹəti
• Hyphenation: sin‧cer‧i‧ty

Noun

sincerity (countable and uncountable, plural sincerities)

1. The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense.
   • William Shakespeare:

     I protest, in the sincerity of love.

   • Knox:

     Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important.

   • George Burns

     Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Synonyms

• honesty
• sincereness

Antonyms

• insincerity

Related terms

• sincere

Translations

quality of being sincere

• Catalan: sinceritat f
• Cebuano: sinceridad
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 真誠 (zh), 真诚 (zh) (zhēnchéng), 真心 (zh) (zhēnxīn), 誠實 (zh), 诚实 (zh) (chéngshí), 真摯 (zh), 真挚 (zh) (zhēnzhì), 誠意 (zh), 诚意 (zh) (chéngyì)

• Czech: upřímnost f
• Dutch: oprechtheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: sincereco
• Finnish: rehellisyys (fi), vilpittömyys (fi)
• French: sincérité (fr)
• German: Aufrichtigkeit (de) f, Ehrlichkeit (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀφελότης f (aphelótēs)

• Hungarian: egyenesség (hu), őszinteség (hu)
• Italian: sincerità (it) f
• Japanese: 誠実 (ja) (せいじつ, seijitsu), 誠意 (ja) (せいい, seii)
• Macedonian: искреност f (iskrenost)
• Malayalam: ആത്മാര്‍ത്ഥത (ātmār‍tthata)
• Portuguese: sinceridade (pt) f
• Romanian: sinceritate (ro) f
• Russian: и́скренность (ru) f (ískrennostʹ), открове́нность (ru) f (otkrovénnostʹ), че́стность (ru) (čéstnostʹ)
• Spanish: sinceridad (es) f

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sincerity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)