English
Etymology
From Middle English sinceritie, from Old French sincerité and Medieval Latin sincēritās; both from Latin sincēritās, from sincērus + -tās. Equivalent to sincere + -ity.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪnˈsɛɹəti/
- Rhymes: -ɛɹəti
- Hyphenation: sin‧cer‧i‧ty
Noun
sincerity (countable and uncountable, plural sincerities)
- The quality or state of being sincere.
- Synonyms: honesty, sincereness
- Antonyms: insincerity, insincereness
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:I protest, in the sincerity of love.
c. 1779-1790, Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary:If the shew of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better
Translations
quality of being sincere
- Arabic: إِخْلَاص (ar) m (ʔiḵlāṣ)
- Azerbaijani: səmimilik, səmimiyyət
- Belarusian: шчы́расць f (ščýrascʹ), адкры́тасць f (adkrýtascʹ)
- Bulgarian: и́скреност (bg) f (ískrenost)
- Catalan: sinceritat f
- Cebuano: sinceridad
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 真誠 / 真诚 (zh) (zhēnchéng), 真心 (zh) (zhēnxīn), 誠實 / 诚实 (zh) (chéngshí), 真摯 / 真挚 (zh) (zhēnzhì), 誠意 / 诚意 (zh) (chéngyì)
- Czech: upřímnost (cs) f
- Danish: oprigtighed c
- Dutch: oprechtheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: sincereco
- Finnish: rehellisyys (fi), vilpittömyys (fi)
- French: sincérité (fr)
- German: Aufrichtigkeit (de) f, Ehrlichkeit (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍅𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹 f (allawērei), 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (airkniþa)
- Greek: ειλικρίνεια (el) f (eilikríneia)
- Ancient: ἀφελότης f (aphelótēs)
- Hungarian: egyenesség (hu), őszinteség (hu)
- Italian: sincerità (it) f
- Japanese: 誠実 (ja) (せいじつ, seijitsu), 誠意 (ja) (せいい, seii)
- Khmer: ភាពស្មោះ (phiəpsmɑh)
- Korean: 성실(誠實) (ko) (seongsil), 성의(誠意) (ko) (seong'ui)
- Latin: sincēritās f
- Macedonian: искреност f (iskrenost)
- Malayalam: ആത്മാർത്ഥത (ātmāṟtthata)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oppriktighet m or f
- Polish: szczerość (pl) f
- Portuguese: sinceridade (pt) f
- Romanian: sinceritate (ro) f
- Russian: и́скренность (ru) f (ískrennostʹ), открове́нность (ru) f (otkrovénnostʹ), че́стность (ru) (čéstnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: и̏скрено̄ст f
- Roman: ȉskrenōst (sh) f
- Slovak: úprimnosť f
- Slovene: iskrenost f
- Spanish: sinceridad (es) f
- Swedish: uppriktighet (sv) c
- Thai: ความจริงใจ (th)
- Turkish: samimiyet (tr)
- Turkmen: dogruçyllyk, yhlas
- Ukrainian: щи́рість f (ščýristʹ), відве́ртість f (vidvértistʹ)
- Vietnamese: sự chân thành (vi)
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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