'Honesty' definitions:
Definition of 'honesty'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of being honest [syn: honesty, honestness] [ant: dishonesty]
noun
Southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration [syn: honesty, silver dollar, money plant, satin flower, satinpod, Lunaria annua]
Definition of 'Honesty'
From: GCIDE
- Honesty \Hon"es*ty\, n. [OE. honeste, oneste, honor, OF. honest['e], onest['e] (cf. F. honn[^e]tet['e]), L. honestas. See Honest, a.]
- 1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. [1913 Webster]
- That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. --1 Tim. ii. 2. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Chastity; modesty. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Bot.) 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; Lunaria rediva is perennial honesty.
- Syn: Integrity; probity; uprightness; trustiness; faithfulness; honor; justice; equity; fairness; candor; plain-dealing; veracity; sincerity. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'honesty'
From: GCIDE
- Lunaria \Lunaria\ prop. n. A small genus of European herbs of the mustard family, including the herb honesty (Lunaria annua), which is also called moonwort and lunary.
- Syn: genus Lunaria. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'honesty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute realism,
- artlessness,
- assured probity,
- authenticity,
- blamelessness,
- bluntness,
- bona fideness,
- candor,
- character,
- cleanness,
- conscientiousness,
- decency,
- dependability,
- directness,
- disinterestedness,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- erectness,
- estimableness,
- fairness,
- forthrightness,
- frankness,
- genuineness,
- good character,
- goodness,
- guilelessness,
- high ideals,
- high principles,
- high-mindedness,
- honor,
- honorableness,
- immaculacy,
- impartiality,
- inartificiality,
- incorruption,
- ingenuousness,
- integrity,
- irreproachability,
- irreproachableness,
- justice,
- justness,
- legitimacy,
- lifelikeness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- moral excellence,
- moral strength,
- morality,
- naturalism,
- naturalness,
- nobility,
- objectivity,
- openness,
- outspokenness,
- photographic realism,
- principles,
- probity,
- pureness,
- purity,
- realism,
- realness,
- rectitude,
- reliability,
- reputability,
- respectability,
- righteousness,
- scrupulousness,
- sincerity,
- stainlessness,
- straightforwardness,
- true-to-lifeness,
- trustworthiness,
- truth to nature,
- truthfulness,
- unadulteration,
- unaffectedness,
- unfictitiousness,
- unimpeachability,
- unimpeachableness,
- unspeciousness,
- unspottedness,
- unspuriousness,
- unsyntheticness,
- uprightness,
- upstandingness,
- veracity,
- verisimilitude,
- virtue,
- virtuousness,
- worthiness