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sincerity - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | sincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | straightforwardness, honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candor, earnestness, frankness, good faith, goodwill, heart, honor, impartiality, innocence, justice, probity, reliability, seriousness, truth, truthfulness, veracity, bona fides, genuineness, guilelessness, openness, sincereness, singleness, trustworthiness, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | dishonesty, insincerity, untrustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | candor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complete honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, fairness, frankness, honesty, impartiality, naiveté, probity, simplicity, sincerity, truthfulness, uprightness, veracity, directness, forthrightness, glasnost, guilelessness, ingenuousness, openness, outspokenness, straightforwardness, unequivocalness |
| Antonyms: | artifice, deception, falsehood, guile, lying |
| Main Entry: | cordiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness, sociability |
| Synonyms: | amenity, approbation, approval, earnestness, favor, geniality, reciprocity, sincerity, sweetness and light, sympathy, understanding, warmth, affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amiability, enjoyableness, gratefulness, heartiness, mutuality, pleasantness, responsiveness, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | coolness, hostility, ill will, indifference, aloofness, unfriendlines, unsociability |
| Main Entry: | devotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commitment; loyalty |
| Synonyms: | adherence, adoration, affection, allegiance, ardor, attachment, consecration, constancy, dedication, deference, earnestness, enthusiasm, faithfulness, fealty, fervor, fidelity, fondness, intensity, love, observance, passion, piety, reverence, sanctity, service, sincerity, spirituality, worship, zeal, devotedness, devotement, devoutness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, carelessness, indifference, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | earnestness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determination; seriousness |
| Synonyms: | absorption, ardor, concentration, decision, deliberation, devotion, doggedness, eagerness, enthusiasm, fervor, firmness, gravity, intensity, keenness, passion, perseverance, persistence, resolution, resolve, sincerity, sobriety, solemnity, stress, tenacity, urgency, vehemence, warmth, zeal, attentiveness, engrossment, intentness, purposefulness, serious-mindedness |
| Antonyms: | flippancy, insincerity, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | fervor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excitement, enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | animation, ardor, eagerness, earnestness, fire*, heat*, hurrah, intensity, jazz*, love, oomph*, passion, pep talk*, piety, seriousness, sincerity, solemnity, vehemence, warmth, weakness, zeal, ardency, devoutness, fervency, heartiness, piousness, religiousness, wholeheartedness, zealousness |
| Notes: | the intensity of heat or feeling can be described as fervency (from Latin fervere 'boil'); an instance of this heat or feeling is fervor |
| Antonyms: | apathy, coolness, discouragement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truthfulness, candidness |
| Synonyms: | candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, goodness, honor, integrity, loyalty, morality, principle, probity, rectitude, responsibility, right, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, uprightness, veracity, virtue, bluntness, evenhandedness, genuineness, impeccability, incorruptibility, justness, openness, outspokenness, plainness, reputability, scrupulousness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, lying, treachery, fraudulence |
| Main Entry: | loyalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | faithfulness, dependability |
| Synonyms: | adherence, allegiance, ardor, attachment, bond, conscientiousness, constancy, devotion, duty, earnestness, faith, fealty, fidelity, homage, honesty, honor, integrity, obedience, patriotism, probity, reliability, resolution, sincerity, submission, support, tie, troth, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, zeal, devotedness, incorruptibility, inviolability, scrupulousness, single-mindedness, singleness, staunchness, steadfastness, subjection, trueheartedness, trueness, trustiness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | disloyalty, unfaithfulness, undependability |
| Main Entry: | probity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fairness, honesty |
| Synonyms: | equity, fidelity, goodness, honor, integrity, justice, morality, rectitude, righteousness, sincerity, truthfulness, uprightness, virtue, worth, rightness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | deceit, dishonesty, unfairness |
| Main Entry: | sportsmanship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | integrity |
| Synonyms: | fairness, goodness, honesty, honor, principle, righteousness, sincerity, virtue, forthrightness, gamesmanship, honorableness |
| Main Entry: | veracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truth |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, candor, correctness, credibility, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, gospel*, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, precision, probity, real McCoy*, reality, rectitude, sincerity, truism, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word*, authenticity, exactitude, genuineness, honest-to-god truth, like it is, openness, rightness, straight stuff, trueness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, falsity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | zeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, ardor, bustle, determination, devotion, diligence, dispatch, drive, eagerness, earnestness, enterprise, fanaticism, fervor, fire, gusto, hustle, inclination, initiative, intensity, keenness, mania, passion, perseverance, push, readiness, sincerity, spirit, urgency, vehemence, verve, warmth, yen, zest, fierceness, intentness, stick-to-itiveness, what-it-takes |
| Antonyms: | apathy, indifference, lethargy |
| Main Entry: | frankness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | openness |
| Synonyms: | candor, honesty, sincerity, ingenuousness |
| Main Entry: | truthfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honesty |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, frankness, integrity, probity, sincerity, veracity, verity, genuineness |
| Antonyms: | deceitfulness, dishonesty, lying, mendacity, untruthfulness |
| Main Entry: | integrity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, uprightness |
| Synonyms: | candor, goodness, honesty, principle, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, sincerity, virtue, forthrightness, honestness, honorableness, incorruptibility, incorruption, straightforwardness |
| Antonyms: | corruption, disgrace, dishonesty, dishonor |
| Main Entry: | resolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determination, strong will |
| Synonyms: | aim, boldness, constancy, courage, decision, declaration, dedication, doggedness, earnestness, energy, firmness, fortitude, guts*, heart*, intent, intention, judgment, mettle, moxie*, obstinacy, perseverance, pluck, purpose, resolve, settlement, sincerity, spirit, spunk, staying power, stubbornness, tenacity, verdict, willpower, dauntlessness, decidedness, fixed purpose, immovability, purposefulness, purposiveness, relentlessness, resoluteness, staunchness, steadfastness |
| Antonyms: | compliance, indecision, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | seriousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humorlessness |
| Synonyms: | calmness, coolness, earnest, earnestness, gravity, sincerity, sobriety, solemnity, thoughtfulness, intentness, sedateness, serious-mindedness, sober-mindedness, staidness, sternness |
| Antonyms: | humor, lightness, funniness |
| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmlessness, naiveté |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, frankness, freshness, ignorance, lack, purity, simplicity, sincerity, virtue, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, guilelessness, gullibility, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, nescience, plainness, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness |
| Antonyms: | experience, impurity, knowledge, treacherousness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honesty, loyalty |
| Synonyms: | candor, constancy, dedication, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, integrity, realism, revelation, sincerity, uprightness, verity, authenticity, dutifulness, openness, veridicality |
| Antonyms: | dishonesty, disloyalty, falsehood, lie, misrepresentation |
| Main Entry: | warmth |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | affection |
| Synonyms: | affection, cordiality, friendliness, hospitality, kindness, sincerity, sympathy, amiability, warmheartedness |
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