mendacity
noun
[ mɛnˈdasəti ]
• untruthfulness.
• "people publicly castigated for past mendacity"
Similar:
lying,
untruthfulness,
dishonesty,
deceit,
deceitfulness,
deception,
dissembling,
insincerity,
disingenuousness,
hypocrisy,
fraud,
fraudulence,
double-dealing,
two-timing,
duplicity,
perjury,
perfidy,
untruth,
fictitiousness,
falsity,
falsehood,
falseness,
fallaciousness,
hollowness,
kidology,
codology,
economy with the truth,
terminological inexactitude,
unveracity,
Origin:
mid 17th century: from ecclesiastical Latin mendacitas, from mendax, mendac- ‘lying’ (see mendacious).
