Truthfulness

//ˈtɹuθfəlnəs// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being truthful. uncountable, usually

    "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."

  2. 2
    the quality of being truthful wordnet

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honestyaccuracyaccuracyactualitycredibilityfact

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"I started doubting the truthfulness of his statement."

Etymology

From truthful + -ness.

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