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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
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Meaning of "mendacity" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MENDACITY

From Late Latin mendācitās, from Latin mendāx untruthful.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MENDACITY

mendacity  [mɛnˈdæsɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MENDACITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mendacity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MENDACITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

mendacity

Deception

Deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification and subterfuge are acts to propagate beliefs of things that are not true, or not the whole truth. Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand, as well as distraction, camouflage, or concealment. There is also self-deception, as in bad faith. Deception is a major relational transgression that often leads to feelings of betrayal and distrust between relational partners. Deception violates relational rules and is considered to be a negative violation of expectations. Most people expect friends, relational partners, and even strangers to be truthful most of the time. If people expected most conversations to be untruthful, talking and communicating with others would require distraction and misdirection to acquire reliable information. A significant amount of deception occurs between romantic and relational partners.

Definition of mendacity in the English dictionary

The definition of mendacity in the dictionary is the tendency to be untruthful. Other definition of mendacity is a falsehood.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MENDACITY


audacity
ɔːˈdæsɪtɪ
capacity
kəˈpæsɪtɪ
edacity
ɪˈdæsɪtɪ
fugacity
fjuːˈɡæsɪtɪ
incapacity
ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪtɪ
inveracity
ˌɪnvəˈræsɪtɪ
loquacity
ləˈkwæsɪtɪ
mordacity
mɔːˈdæsɪtɪ
opacity
əʊˈpæsɪtɪ
overcapacity
ˌəʊvəkəˈpæsɪtɪ
perspicacity
ˌpɜːspɪˈkæsɪtɪ
pertinacity
ˌpɜːtɪˈnæsɪtɪ
predacity
prɪˈdæsɪtɪ
pugnacity
pʌɡˈnæsɪtɪ
radiopacity
ˌreɪdɪəʊˈpæsɪtɪ
rapacity
rəˈpæsɪtɪ
sagacity
səˈɡæsɪtɪ
veracity
vɛˈræsɪtɪ
vivacity
vɪˈvæsɪtɪ
voracity
vɒˈræsɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MENDACITY

mend
mend one´s fences
mendable
mendacious
mendaciously
mendaciousness
mendacities
Mendel
Mendel´s laws
Mendeleev´s law
mendelevium
Mendeleyev
Mendelian
Mendelianism
Mendelism
Mendelssohn
mender
Menderes
Mendes
mendicancy

WORDS THAT END LIKE MENDACITY

carrying capacity
city
contumacity
cubic capacity
cylinder capacity
disk capacity
excess capacity
feracity
heat capacity
industrial capacity
inefficacity
megacity
memory capacity
salacity
seating capacity
specific heat capacity
storage capacity
tenacity
unveracity
vital capacity
warehouse capacity

Synonyms and antonyms of mendacity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MENDACITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «mendacity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of mendacity

Translation of «mendacity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MENDACITY

Find out the translation of mendacity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mendacity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mendacity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

谎言
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mendacidad
570 millions of speakers

English

mendacity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भिक्षावृति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكذب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лживость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

falsidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মিথ্যা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fausseté
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kekurangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verlogenheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

うそをつくこと
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

mendacity
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mendicita
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính dang dối
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொய்வேஷத்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सौम्यता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yalancılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mendacia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zakłamanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

брехливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

minciuna
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψευδολογία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

leuenaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lögnaktighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

løgnaktighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mendacity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MENDACITY»

The term «mendacity» is regularly used and occupies the 81.031 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MENDACITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mendacity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mendacity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mendacity

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QUOTES WITH «MENDACITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mendacity.
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Tennessee Williams
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MENDACITY»

Discover the use of mendacity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mendacity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics
In The Virtues of Mendacity, Jay resolves to avoid this conventional framing of the debate over lying and politics by examining what has been said in support of, and opposition to, political lying from Plato and St. Augustine to Hannah ...
Martin Jay, 2010
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The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of ...
Obama's reform packages, passed with great fanfare, ignore the most significant perils facing the United States. In The Mendacity of Hope, Roger D. Hodge makes the provocative case that substantive reform was never even on the table.
Roger D. Hodge, 2010
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The Audacious Mendacity of Lily Green
The outcome of the revelations is dramatic, catastrophic - and liberating. THE AUDACIOUS MENDACITY OF LILY GREEN is a darkly comic tale about loneliness, desperation, and the power of self-reinvention.
Shelley Weiner, 2012
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Perfect Mendacity
"Walter Kreutzer, a microbiologist for a defense contractor, is being investigated by his employers over an incriminating memo that was leaked to the media.
Jason Wells, 2010
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The Law of Universal Mendacity: And Don't Be Conned
The book is a reaction to contemporary trends.
Bo De Yang, 2004
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Mendacity
Sometimes...the past... doesn't stay in the past... Taking an English Lit Professorship at a prestigious East Coast college seemed like a good idea to California native Alexandria Escalantè.
Alexandria Infante, 2012
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Fear of food: environmentalist scams, media mendacity, and ...
Fear of Food is the story of how a campaign against one chemical, Alar, devastated apple growers from New York to Washington State, told for what it really was: A well-orchestrated effort to raise money and recruit supporters by frightened ...
Andrea Arnold, Jay Sandlin, 1990
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Later Greek Literature
The mendacity of Kalasiris and the narrative strategy of Heliodoros' Aithiopika JOHN J. WINKLER Two persistent problems which otherwise enthusiastic readers of the Aithiopika have raised are the apparent contradictions, first in Kalasiris' ...
John J. Winkler, Gordon Willis Williams, Yale University. Dept. of Classics, 1982
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Rationale Of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied To English ...
Where, in the former instance, the object of the mendacity was to save a man's self from evil of any kind, whether under the name of pure punishment, or satisfaction to another for injury,_the greater the evil, the less the probability it atl' ords of ...
‎1843
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Principles Of Judicial Procedure, With The Outlines Of a ...
Answer : For the reason that the effcct of any evidence, in aflirmance even of habitual mendacity, will not be to produce the exclusion of the individual in the capacity of a witness: sole effect, that of producing an opinion in aflirmanee of a ...
‎1843

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MENDACITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mendacity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Donald Trump Speaks to the Silenced Majority of America. Is …
Their institutions denigrate their culture while filtering out goodness from cultures that are steeped in mendacity. Americans are made to feel ... «TheBlaze.com, Jul 15»
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Let's give God a good reason to save us - The Manila Times …
Sucked into this game of political exploitation, mendacity and deceit, many of our people have sunk into the deepest mire of gullibility and ... «The Manila Times, Jul 15»
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NGT directs DMRC to remove dumped material near Yamuna
... heavy particles, iron junk and different development material which belong to DMRC are mendacity at Sarai Kale Khan to Mayur Vihar stretch ... «Bharat Press, Jul 15»
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The fall of Gary Hirshberg: From reformer to reactionary anti-science …
... appropriate word for it) response to Will Saletan's analysis of the consistent mendacity of anti-GMO activists. Hirshberg posted a response to ... «Genetic Literacy Project, Jul 15»
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In a word: mendacious
Mendacity came to English from Tertullian's Latin mendacitas, from the root mendac, mendax, “lying,” “false.” It turned up in the mid-sixteenth ... «Baltimore Sun, Jul 15»
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Greece's Lesson for Russia | Foreign Policy Journal
... the referendum, because the Greeks relied on the good will of their European partners and underestimated the mendacity of the One Percent ... «Foreign Policy Journal, Jul 15»
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Scott Walker: Satan's Candidate - English pravda.ru
Walker, in fact, is already playing the "God" card to divert attention from his corruption, mendacity, and hypocrisy. But, if one is astute enough, ... «Pravda, Jul 15»
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Sion Sono's “Whispering Star”—The Return to Present: A Brief Visit …
Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it.” Ongoing ... «Tokyo Art Beat, Jul 15»
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Who would take issue with request for civility? COLAB, for one
So, when local officials expose mendacity by asking pointed questions, COLAB cries persecution. But when COLAB and fellow fellers act ... «The San Luis Obispo Tribune, Jul 15»
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Ralph Nader: Yours To Know: Worst Pills, Best Pills – OpEd
... the false or deceptive corporate assurances associated with consumer products, no one has done more to expose Big Pharma's mendacity. «Eurasia Review, Jul 15»

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