Word Meanings - SINCERITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity of love. Shak. Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important. Knox.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SINCERITY)

• Honesty
• Integrity
• probity
• uprightness
• straightforwardness
• fairness
• sincerity
• honor
• rectitude
• virtue
• justice
• veracity
• Simplicity
• artlessness
• plainness
• frankness
• Warmth
• Ardor
• glow
• fervor
• zeal
• heat
• excitement
• intensity
• earnestness
• cordiality
• animation
• eagerness
• vehemence
• geniality
• passion
• irascibility
• emotion
• life

Related words: (words related to SINCERITY)

• WARMTH
  The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
• HONESTY
  Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• INTEGRITY
  1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. 2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with
• GENIALITY
  The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
• INTENSITY
  The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• FAIRNESS
  The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.
• JUSTICESHIP
  The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.
• ANIMATION
  1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of
• HONORARY
  1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
• PASSIONLESS
  Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
• SIMPLICITY
  1. The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths. 2. The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine. 3. Artlessness of mind;
• VIRTUELESS
  Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless. Virtueless she wished all herbs and charms. Fairfax.
• FERVOR
  1. Heat; excessive warmth. The fevor of ensuing day. Waller. 2. Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness. Hooker. Winged with fervor of her love. Shak. Syn. -- Fervor, Ardor. Fervor is a boiling heat, and
• SINCERITY
  The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity of love. Shak. Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important. Knox.
• ARTLESSNESS
  The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• INANIMATION
  Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• REANIMATION
  The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
• IMPASSIONABLE
  Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.
• INSINCERITY
  The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions
• IMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. Smart.