truthfulness
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truthfulness (usually uncountable, plural truthfulnesses)
- The quality of being truthful
- 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, History as Literature:
- Many hard-working students, alive to the deficiencies of this kind of romance-writing, have grown to distrust not only all historical writing that is romantic, but all historical writing that is vivid. They feel that complete truthfulness must never be sacrificed to color.
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- See also Thesaurus:veracity
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quality of being truthful
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Further reading edit
- “truthfulness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.