| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truthfulness, candidness |
Synonyms: |
bluntness, candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, evenhandedness, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, goodness, honor, impeccability, incorruptibility, integrity, justness, loyalty, morality, openness, outspokenness, plainness, principle, probity, rectitude, reputability, responsibility, right, scrupulousness, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness, uprightness, veracity, virtue |
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artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, fraudulence, lying, treachery |
| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blamelessness |
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chastity, clean hands, clear conscience, guiltlessness, immaculateness, impeccability, incorruptibility, incorruption, inculpability, probity, purity, righteousness, sinlessness, stainlessness, uprightness, virtue |
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badness, blame, corruption, evil, guilt, sin |
| Main Entry: | perfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, completeness |
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accomplishment, achieving, acme, arete, completion, consummation, crown, ending, entireness, evolution, exactness, excellence, excellency, exquisiteness, faultlessness, finish, finishing, fulfillment, ideal, idealism, impeccability, integrity, maturity, merit, paragon, perfectness, phoenix, precision, purity, quality, realization, ripeness, sublimity, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, wholeness |
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damage, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, incompleteness, uselessness, worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | infallibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perfection |
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faultlessness, impeccability, supremacy |
| Main Entry: | honorableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honesty |
Synonyms: |
bluntness, candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, evenhandedness, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, goodness, honor, impeccability, incorruptibility, integrity, justness, loyalty, morality, openness, outspokenness, plainnes |
| Main Entry: | incorruptibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honesty |
Synonyms: |
bluntness, candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, evenhandedness, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, goodness, honor, honorableness, impeccability, integrity, justness, loyalty, morality, openness, outspokenness, plainness, principle, probity, rectitude, reputability, responsibility, right, scrupulousness, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness, uprightness, upstandingness, veracity, virtue |
| Main Entry: | upstandingness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honesty |
Synonyms: |
bluntness, candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, evenhandedness, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, goodness, honor, honorableness, impeccability, incorruptibility, integrity, justness, loyalty, morality, openness, outspokenness, plainness, principle, probity, rectitude, reputability, responsibility, right, scrupulousness, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness, uprightness, veracity, virtue |
| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
above all praise, admirable, angelic, as good as one's word, beyond all praise, candid, chivalrous, coeliginous, commendable, conscientious, constant, constant as the Northern Star, correct, creditable, desertful, deserving, duteous, dutiful, equitable, even-handed, excellent, exemplary, fair, fair and above board, faithful, frank, gentlemanlike, godlike, good, heaven-born, high-minded, high-principled, high-spirited, honest, honest as daylight, honorable, impartial, impravable, incorruptible, innocent, inviolable, inviolate, jealous of honor, just, laudable, loyal, matchless, meritorious, moral, nice, noble, open and above board, open-hearted, overscrupulous, peerless, praiseworthy, punctilious, punctual, pure, religious, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, saintlike, saintly, scrupulous, seraphic, square, stainless, staunch, sterling, straightforward, strict, supramundane, tender-conscienced, to be depended upon, true, true as the needle to the north, true to one's colors, true to the core, true-blue, true-hearted, trustworthy, trusty, unbetrayed, unbought, unbribed, unbroken, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undebauched, undefiled, undepraved, unperjured, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, unviolated, unworldly, upright, veracious, virtuous, well-intentioned, worthy
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| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
faultless, above suspicion, arcadian, artless, blameless, bloodguiltless, blunt, candid, clear, direct, dove, frank, guileless, guiltless, harmless, harmless as doves, honest, immaculate, impeccant, inartificial, inculpable, indefectible, inerrable, ingenit, ingenuous, innocent, innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, irreprehensible, irreproachable, irreprovable, lamb, native, natural, naïve, not guilty, open, pauciplicate, plain, pure, salvable, saturnian, simple, sincere, sinless, spotless, stainless, straightforward, unaffected, unblamable, unblemished, unculpable, undefiled, undesigning, unerring, unexceptionable, unflattering, unguilty, unhardened, unimpeachable, unimpeached, unobjectionable, unpoetical, unreproached, unreproved, unreserved, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstudied, untutored, venial, virtuous
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| Concept: | Perfection. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
perfection; perfectness; indefectibility; impeccancy, impeccability., pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of perfection; ne plus ultra; summit., cygne noir; philosopher's stone; chrysolite, Koh-i-noor., model, standard, pattern, mirror, admirable Crichton; trump, very prince of., masterpiece, superexcellence (goodness); transcendence (superiority).
-verbs
be perfect; transcend (be supreme)., bring to perfection, perfect, ripen, mature; complete; put in trim (prepare); maturate.
-adjectives
perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection; unblemished, uninjured; sound, in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy (safe); right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus [Horace]; consummate (complete); finished., best (good); model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned, unparalleled (supreme); superhuman, divine; beyond all praise (approbation); sans peur et sans reproche.
-adverbs
to perfection; perfectly; ad unguem; clean, clean as a whistle.
-phrases
"let us go on unto perfection" [ Hebrews vi, 1]; "the perfection of art is to conceal art" [Quintilian].
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Antonyms: |
imperfection |
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