'Insincerity' definitions:
Definition of 'insincerity'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical [syn: insincerity, falseness, hollowness] [ant: sincerity]
Definition of 'Insincerity'
From: GCIDE
- Insincerity \In`sin*cer"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. insinc['e]rit['e].] The quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard. [1913 Webster]
- What men call policy and knowledge of the world, is commonly no other thing than dissimulation and insincerity. --Blair. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'insincerity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- apparent soundness,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- cant,
- casuistry,
- circularity,
- craftiness,
- credibility gap,
- crossed fingers,
- deceitfulness,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- emptiness,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- facade,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false front,
- false piety,
- false show,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feigned belief,
- flattering tongue,
- forswearing,
- fraud,
- front,
- goody-goodiness,
- gush,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- intrigue,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- mannerism,
- mealymouthedness,
- mere show,
- misapplication,
- mockery,
- mummery,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oiliness,
- oversubtlety,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- philosophism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rationalization,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- sham,
- sharp practice,
- show,
- slobber,
- smarm,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- subtlety,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- that flattering unction,
- tongue in cheek,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- unfrankness,
- unnaturalness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning