sincerity

English

Etymology

From Middle English sinceritie, from Old French sincerité and Medieval Latin sincēritas; both from Latin sincēritas, from sincērus + -tās. Equivalent to sincere +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪnˈsɛɹəti/
• Rhymes: -ɛɹəti
• Hyphenation: sin‧cer‧i‧ty

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sincerity (countable and uncountable, plural sincerities)

1. The quality or state of being sincere.

   Synonyms: honesty, sincereness

   Antonyms: insincerity, insincereness

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

     I protest, in the sincerity of love.

   • c. 1779-1790, Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary:

     If the shew of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better

Related terms

• sincere

Translations

quality of being sincere

• Arabic: إِخْلَاص (ar) m (ʔiḵlāṣ)
• Azerbaijani: səmimilik, səmimiyyət
• Belarusian: шчы́расць f (ščýrascʹ), адкры́тасць f (adkrýtascʹ)
• Bulgarian: и́скреност (bg) f (ískrenost)
• Catalan: sinceritat f
• Cebuano: sinceridad
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 真誠／真诚 (zh) (zhēnchéng), 真心 (zh) (zhēnxīn), 誠實／诚实 (zh) (chéngshí), 真摯／真挚 (zh) (zhēnzhì), 誠意／诚意 (zh) (chéngyì)

• Czech: upřímnost (cs) f
• Danish: oprigtighed c
• Dutch: oprechtheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: sincereco
• Finnish: rehellisyys (fi), vilpittömyys (fi)
• French: sincérité (fr)
• German: Aufrichtigkeit (de) f, Ehrlichkeit (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍅𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹 f (allawērei), 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (airkniþa)
• Greek: ειλικρίνεια (el) f (eilikríneia)

  Ancient: ἀφελότης f (aphelótēs)

• Hungarian: egyenesség (hu), őszinteség (hu)
• Italian: sincerità (it) f
• Japanese: 誠実 (ja) (せいじつ, seijitsu), 誠意 (ja) (せいい, seii)
• Khmer: ភាពស្មោះ (phiəpsmɑh)
• Korean: 성실(誠實) (ko) (seongsil), 성의(誠意) (ko) (seong'ui)
• Latin: sincēritās f
• Macedonian: искреност f (iskrenost)
• Malayalam: ആത്മാർത്ഥത (ātmāṟtthata)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppriktighet m or f

• Polish: szczerość (pl) f
• Portuguese: sinceridade (pt) f
• Romanian: sinceritate (ro) f
• Russian: и́скренность (ru) f (ískrennostʹ), открове́нность (ru) f (otkrovénnostʹ), че́стность (ru) (čéstnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: и̏скрено̄ст f

  Roman: ȉskrenōst (sh) f

• Slovak: úprimnosť f
• Slovene: iskrenost f
• Spanish: sinceridad (es) f
• Swedish: uppriktighet (sv) c
• Thai: ความจริงใจ (th)
• Turkish: samimiyet (tr)
• Turkmen: dogruçyllyk, yhlas
• Ukrainian: щи́рість f (ščýristʹ), відве́ртість f (vidvértistʹ)
• Vietnamese: sự chân thành (vi)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

See also

• seriosity
• seriousness