'Mendacity' definitions:
Definition of 'Mendacity'
From: GCIDE
- Mendacity \Men*dac"i*ty\, n.; pl. Mendacities. [L. mendacitas.]
- 1. The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A falsehood; a lie. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Lying; deceit; untruth; falsehood. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mendacity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- blague,
- boggling,
- caviling,
- cock-and-bull story,
- credibility gap,
- dishonesty,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- exaggeration,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fib,
- fibbery,
- fibbing,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- ghost story,
- half-truth,
- hedging,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- lying,
- mendaciousness,
- mythomania,
- pious fiction,
- prevarication,
- pseudology,
- quibbling,
- shifting,
- sidestepping,
- slight stretching,
- story,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- trumped-up story,
- truthlessness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- unveraciousness,
- white lie,
- yarn