insincerity

English

Alternative forms

• unsincerity (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English sincerity

English insincerity

From in- + sincerity.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnsɪnˈsɛɹɪti/
• Rhymes: -ɛɹɪti
• Hyphenation: in‧sin‧cer‧i‧ty

Noun

insincerity (countable and uncountable, plural insincerities)

1. The state or property of being insincere, lacking sincerity or truthfulness.

   Antonym: sincerity

   His insincerity was obvious to all; he was neither honest nor believable.

Translations

property of being insincere

• Bulgarian: неискреност (bg) f (neiskrenost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 虛偽 / 虚伪 (zh) (xūwěi)

• Czech: neupřímnost (cs) f
• Esperanto: malsincereco
• Finnish: epärehellisyys (fi)
• Galician: insinceridade (gl) f
• German: Unaufrichtigkeit (de) f
• Greek: ανειλικρίνεια (el) f (aneilikríneia)
• Hindi: बेईमानी (hi) f (beīmānī)
• Hungarian: őszintétlenség (hu)
• Japanese: 不誠実 (ja) (ふせいじつ, fuseijitsu)
• Macedonian: неискреност f (neiskrenost)
• Polish: nieszczerość (pl) f
• Romanian: nesinceritate
• Russian: неи́скренность (ru) f (neískrennostʹ)
• Turkish: samimiyetsizlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: нещи́рість f (neščýristʹ)