Meanings
plural truthfulnesses
- uncountableusuallyThe quality of being truthful.
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.
1912, Theodore Roosevelt, History as Literature
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Translations
Arabic صِدْق
- صِدْق (ṣidq)quality of being truthful
Czech pravdomluvnost
- pravdomluvnostquality of being truthful
Finnish todenmukaisuus, totuudenmukaisuus
- todenmukaisuusquality of being truthful
- totuudenmukaisuusquality of being truthful
French véracité
- véracitéquality of being truthful
Irish cruinneas
- cruinneasquality of being truthful
Polish prawdomówność
- prawdomównośćquality of being truthful
Romanian veridicitate
- veridicitatequality of being truthful
Russian правдивость, достоверность
- правдивость (pravdivostʹ)quality of being truthful
- достоверность (dostovernostʹ)quality of being truthful
Turkish güvenilirlik
- güvenilirlikquality of being truthful
Cite this entry
truthfulness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/truthfulness
“truthfulness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/truthfulness. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “truthfulness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/truthfulness.
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