TRUTHFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does truthfulness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being truthful

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUTHFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being truthful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

honestness; honesty (the quality of being honest)

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

sincerity (the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical)

sooth (truth or reality)

veracity (unwillingness to tell lies)

Antonym:

untruthfulness (the quality of being untruthful)

Derivation:

truthful (expressing or given to expressing the truth)

 Context examples 

“Sir, I honor your truthfulness,” said Ford.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)