| Main Entry: | sincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | straightforwardness, honesty |
Synonyms: |
artlessness, bona fides, candor, earnestness, frankness, genuineness, good faith, goodwill, guilelessness, heart, honor, impartiality, innocence, justice, openness, probity, reliability, seriousness, sincereness, singleness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, veracity, wholeheartedness |
Antonyms: |
dishonesty, insincerity, untrustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | candor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complete honesty |
Synonyms: |
artlessness, directness, fairness, forthrightness, frankness, glasnost, guilelessness, honesty, impartiality, ingenuousness, naiveté, openness, outspokenness, probity, simplicity, sincerity, straightforwardness, truthfulness, unequivocalness, uprightness, veracity |
Antonyms: |
artifice, deception, falsehood, guile, lying |
| Main Entry: | cordiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness, sociability |
Synonyms: |
affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, approbation, approval, earnestness, enjoyableness, favor, geniality, gratefulness, heartiness, mutuality, pleasantness, reciprocity, responsiveness, sincerity, sweetness and light, sympathy, understanding, warmth, wholeheartedness |
Antonyms: |
aloofness, coolness, hostility, ill will, indifference, unfriendlines, unsociability |
| Main Entry: | devotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commitment; loyalty |
Synonyms: |
adherence, adoration, affection, allegiance, ardor, attachment, consecration, constancy, dedication, deference, devotedness, devotement, devoutness, earnestness, enthusiasm, faithfulness, fealty, fervor, fidelity, fondness, intensity, love, observance, passion, piety, reverence, sanctity, service, sincerity, spirituality, worship, zeal |
Antonyms: |
apathy, carelessness, indifference, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | earnestness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determination; seriousness |
Synonyms: |
absorption, ardor, attentiveness, concentration, decision, deliberation, devotion, doggedness, eagerness, engrossment, enthusiasm, fervor, firmness, gravity, intensity, intentness, keenness, passion, perseverance, persistence, purposefulness, resolution, resolve, serious-mindedness, sincerity, sobriety, solemnity, stress, tenacity, urgency, vehemence, warmth, zeal |
Antonyms: |
flippancy, insincerity, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | fervor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excitement, enthusiasm |
Synonyms: |
animation, ardency, ardor, devoutness, eagerness, earnestness, fervency, fire*, heartiness, heat*, hurrah, intensity, jazz, love, oomph, passion, pep talk, piety, piousness, religiousness, seriousness, sincerity, solemnity, vehemence, warmth, weakness, wholeheartedness, zeal, 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 |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, fraudulence, lying, treachery |
| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmlessness, naiveté |
Synonyms: |
artlessness, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, frankness, freshness, guilelessness, gullibility, ignorance, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, lack, nescience, plainness, purity, simplicity, sincerity, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness, virtue |
Antonyms: |
experience, impurity, knowledge, treacherousness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | integrity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, uprightness |
Synonyms: |
candor, forthrightness, goodness, honestness, honesty, honorableness, incorruptibility, incorruption, principle, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, sincerity, straightforwardness, virtue |
Antonyms: |
corruption, disgrace, dishonesty, dishonor |
| Main Entry: | loyalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | faithfulness, dependability |
Synonyms: |
adherence, allegiance, ardor, attachment, bond, conscientiousness, constancy, devotedness, devotion, duty, earnestness, faith, fealty, fidelity, homage, honesty, honor, incorruptibility, integrity, inviolability, obedience, patriotism, probity, reliability, resolution, scrupulousness, sincerity, single-mindedness, singleness, staunchness, steadfastness, subjection, submission, support, tie, troth, trueheartedness, trueness, trustiness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, zeal |
Antonyms: |
disloyalty, undependability, unfaithfulness |