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MENDACITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mendacity mean?
• MENDACITY (noun)
The noun MENDACITY has 1 sense:
1. the tendency to be untruthful
Familiarity information: MENDACITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The tendency to be untruthful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("mendacity" is a kind of...):
untruthfulness (the quality of being untruthful)
Antonym:
veracity (unwillingness to tell lies)
Derivation:
mendacious (given to lying)
mendacious (intentionally untrue)
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