truthfulness

Noun

Meaning

truthfulness (usually uncountable, plural truthfulnesses)

The quality of being truthful

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Examples

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature. Clarence Darrow

The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness. Confucius

The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form. Daniel Webster

With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition. Karl Jaspers

Truthfulness ensures a lasting relationship. Filipino Proverb

It is ungentlemanly to lie; truthfulness becomes the gentleman. Latin Proverb

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