English

Noun

truthfulness ‎(usually uncountable, plural truthfulnesses)

1. The quality of being truthful
   • 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, History as Literature:

     Many hard-working students, alive to the deficiencies of this kind of romance-writing, have grown to distrust not only all historical writing that is romantic, but all historical writing that is vivid. They feel that complete truthfulness must never be sacrificed to color.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:veracity

Antonyms

• falseness
• untruthfulness

Translations

External links

• truthfulness in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911