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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | openness |
| Synonyms: | candor, honesty, ingenuousness, sincerity |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | easy attitude |
| Synonyms: | abandon, boldness, brazenness, candor, directness, disrespect, ease, facility, familiarity, forthrightness, forwardness, frankness, impertinence, informality, ingenuousness, lack of reserve, lack of restraint, laxity, license, openness, overfamiliarity, presumption, readiness, spontaneity, unconstraint |
| Antonyms: | difficulty, limitation, reserve, restraint, restriction |
| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truthfulness, candidness |
| Synonyms: | bluntness, candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, evenhandedness, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, goodness, honor, impeccability, incorruptibility, integrity, justness, loyalty, morality, openness, outspokenness, plainness, principle, probity, rectitude, reputability, responsibility, right, scrupulousness, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness, uprightness, veracity, virtue |
| Antonyms: | artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, fraudulence, lying, treachery |
| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmlessness, naiveté |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, frankness, freshness, guilelessness, gullibility, ignorance, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, lack, nescience, plainness, purity, simplicity, sincerity, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | experience, impurity, knowledge, treacherousness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | naiveté |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence, gullibility |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity, frankness, guilelessness, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness, simplicity |
| Antonyms: | experience, leeriness, skepticism, sophistication |
| Main Entry: | sincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | straightforwardness, honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, bona fides, candor, earnestness, frankness, genuineness, good faith, goodwill, guilelessness, heart, honor, impartiality, innocence, justice, openness, probity, reliability, seriousness, sincereness, singleness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, veracity, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | dishonesty, insincerity, untrustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honesty, loyalty |
| Synonyms: | authenticity, candor, constancy, dedication, devotion, dutifulness, faith, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, integrity, openness, realism, revelation, sincerity, uprightness, veridicality, verity |
| Antonyms: | dishonesty, disloyalty, falsehood, lie, misrepresentation |
| Main Entry: | veracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truth |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, authenticity, candor, correctness, credibility, exactitude, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, gospel, honest-to-god truth, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, like it is, openness, precision, probity, real McCoy, reality, rectitude, rightness, sincerity, straight stuff, trueness, truism, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word* |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, falsity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | naïveté |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity, frankness, guilelessness, gullibility, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness, simplicity |
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