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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 untruthfulplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MENDACITY (noun)


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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