HONESTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honestness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being honest

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONESTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being honest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

honestness; honesty

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

righteousness (adhering to moral principles)

Attribute:

square; straight (characterized by honesty and fairness)

corrupt; crooked (not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive)

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

scrupulousness (conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence)

integrity (moral soundness)

incorruption; incorruptness (characterized by integrity or probity)

incorruptibility (the incapability of being corrupted)

candidness; candor; candour; directness; forthrightness; frankness (the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech)

good faith; straightness (having honest intentions)

truthfulness (the quality of being truthful)

Derivation:

honest (not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent)

honest (marked by truth)

honest (without dissimulation; frank)

honest (worthy of being depended on)