UNTRUTHFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untruthfulness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being untruthful

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTRUTHFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being untruthful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

dishonesty (the quality of being dishonest)

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

equivocation; evasiveness; prevarication (intentionally vague or ambiguous)

falseness; hollowness; insincerity (the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical)

mendacity (the tendency to be untruthful)

Antonym:

truthfulness (the quality of being truthful)

Derivation:

untruthful (not expressing or given to expressing the truth)