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impeccability
| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | perfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, completeness |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achieving, acme, arete, completion, consummation, crown, ending, entireness, evolution, exactness, excellence, excellency, exquisiteness, faultlessness, finish, finishing, fulfillment, ideal, idealism, impeccability, integrity, maturity, merit, paragon, perfectness, phoenix, precision, purity, quality, realization, ripeness, sublimity, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, wholeness |
| Antonyms: | damage, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, incompleteness, uselessness, worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | infallibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perfection |
| Synonyms: | faultlessness, impeccability, supremacy |
| Main Entry: | honorableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honesty |
| Synonyms: | bluntness, candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, evenhandedness, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, goodness, honor, impeccability, incorruptibility, integrity, justness, loyalty, morality, openness, outspokenness, plainnes |
| Main Entry: | incorruptibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honesty |
| Synonyms: | bluntness, candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, evenhandedness, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, goodness, honor, honorableness, impeccability, integrity, justness, loyalty, morality, openness, outspokenness, plainness, principle, probity, rectitude, reputability, responsibility, right, scrupulousness, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness, uprightness, upstandingness, veracity, virtue |
| Main Entry: | upstandingness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honesty |
| Synonyms: | bluntness, candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, evenhandedness, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, goodness, honor, honorableness, 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 |
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| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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above all praise, admirable, angelic, as good as one's word, beyond all praise, candid, chivalrous, coeliginous, commendable, conscientious, constant, constant as the Northern Star, correct, creditable, desertful, deserving, duteous, dutiful, equitable, even-handed, excellent, exemplary, fair, fair and above board, faithful, frank, gentlemanlike, godlike, good, heaven-born, high-minded, high-principled, high-spirited, honest, honest as daylight, honorable, impartial, impravable, incorruptible, innocent, inviolable, inviolate, jealous of honor, just, laudable, loyal, matchless, meritorious, moral, nice, noble, open and above board, open-hearted, overscrupulous, peerless, praiseworthy, punctilious, punctual, pure, religious, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, saintlike, saintly, scrupulous, seraphic, square, stainless, staunch, sterling, straightforward, strict, supramundane, tender-conscienced, to be depended upon, true, true as the needle to the north, true to one's colors, true to the core, true-blue, true-hearted, trustworthy, trusty, unbetrayed, unbought, unbribed, unbroken, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undebauched, undefiled, undepraved, unperjured, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, unviolated, unworldly, upright, veracious, virtuous, well-intentioned, worthy
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| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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above suspicion, arcadian, artless, blameless, bloodguiltless, blunt, candid, clear, direct, dove, faultless, frank, guileless, guiltless, harmless, harmless as doves, honest, immaculate, impeccant, inartificial, inculpable, indefectible, inerrable, ingenit, ingenuous, innocent, innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, irreprehensible, irreproachable, irreprovable, lamb, native, natural, naïve, not guilty, open, pauciplicate, plain, pure, salvable, saturnian, simple, sincere, sinless, spotless, stainless, straightforward, unaffected, unblamable, unblemished, unculpable, undefiled, undesigning, unerring, unexceptionable, unflattering, unguilty, unhardened, unimpeachable, unimpeached, unobjectionable, unpoetical, unreproached, unreproved, unreserved, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstudied, untutored, venial, virtuous
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| Concept: | Innocence. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
innocence; guiltlessness; incorruption, impeccability., clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Vergil]., innocent, lamb, dove.
-verbs
be innocent; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa [Horace]., acquit; exculpate (vindicate).
-adjectives
innocent, not guilty; unguilty; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled; unhardened, Saturnian; Arcadian (artless)., inculpable, unculpable; unblamed, unblamable; blameless, unfallen, inerrable, above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable, irreprehensible; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable; venial., harmless; inoffensive, innoxious, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; "more sinned against than sinning" [Lear]., virtuous; unreproved, unimpeached, unreproached.
-adverbs
innocently; with clean hands; with a clear conscience, with a safe conscience.
-phrases
murus aeneus conscientia sana [Horace].
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| Antonyms: | guilt |
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