mendacity

men·dac·i·ty

noun \men-ˈda-sə-tē\

plural men·dac·i·ties

Definition of MENDACITY

1

: the quality or state of being mendacious

2

: lie

Examples of MENDACITY

1. <highly fictionalized “memoirs” in which the facts were few and the mendacities many>
2. <you need to overcome this deplorable mendacity, or no one will ever believe anything you say>

First Known Use of MENDACITY

1646

Related to MENDACITY

Synonyms: fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper

Antonyms: truth

Related Words: distortion, exaggeration, half-truth; ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity; defamation, libel, slander; perjury; bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence); humbug, jive, nonsense; canard, fallacy, misconception, myth; falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement; deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence

Near Antonyms: fact, truism, verity; honesty, truthfulness, veracity; authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification

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Rhymes with MENDACITY

audacity, capacity, edacity, fugacity, loquacity, opacity, predacity, pugnacity, rapacity, sagacity, sequacity, tenacity, veracity, vivacity, voracity