honesty

honesty
n
1. uprightness, rectitude, probity, honor, integrity; justice, justness, fairness, impartiality, equity, equitableness, objectivity, objectiveness, disinterestedness, evenness, evenhandedness, Inf. levelness; straightness, squareness, square dealing, plain dealing, square shooting, straight shooting; open-mindedness, freedom from bias or prejudice.
2. truthfulness, veracity, veraciousness, truth-telling, truth-speaking, truth-loving, truth-dealing; candor, candidness, frankness, forthrightness, straightforwardness, calling a spade a spade. Inf. calling it as one sees it, Sl. telling it like it is; plainness, plain-spokenness, plain-speaking, downrightness, outrightness, ex-plicitness, unequivocalness; outspokenness, free-spokenness, free-speaking, nonreticence, freeness, boldness, unreserve, unrestraint, unconstraint, unin-hibitedness, unabashedness; bluntness, bluffness, brusqueness, brashness, tactlessness.
3. openness, open-heartedness, ingenuousness, guile-lessness, artlessness, sincerity, sincereness, genuineness, undeceptiveness, undeceitfulness.

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