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Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.
Dario Fo

Meaning of "two-facedness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TWO-FACEDNESS

two-facedness  [ˌtuːˈfeɪstnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TWO-FACEDNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Two-Facedness 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 TWO-FACEDNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of two-facedness in the English dictionary

The definition of two-facedness in the dictionary is the quality of being deceitful, insincere, or hypocritical.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TWO-FACEDNESS


barefacedness
ˈbɛəfeɪstnəs
colorfastness
ˈkʌləˌfɑːstnəs
curstness
ˈkɜːstnəs
firstness
ˈfɜːstnəs
fixedness
ˈfɪkstnəs
forcedness
ˈfɔːstnəs
honestness
ˈɒnɪstnəs
lightfastness
ˈlaɪtˌfɑːstnəs
lostness
ˈlɒstnəs
manifestness
ˈmænɪˌfɛstnəs
pastness
ˈpɑːstnəs
perplexedness
pəˈplɛkstnəs
unbiasedness
ʌnˈbaɪəstnəs
unchasteness
ʌnˈtʃeɪstnəs
unjustness
ʌnˈdʒʌstnəs
unpractisedness
ʌnˈpræktɪstnəs
unsteadfastness
ʌnˈstɛdˌfɑːstnəs
vexedness
ˈvɛkstnəs
wasteness
ˈweɪstnəs
wastness
ˈweɪstnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TWO-FACEDNESS

two-colour process
two-cycle
two-cylinder
two-dimensional
two-dimensionality
two-dimensionally
two-door
two-edged
two-faced
two-facedly
two-fisted
two-four
two-four time
two-handed
two-handedly
two-hander
two-horse race
two-legged
two-line
two-name paper

WORDS THAT END LIKE TWO-FACEDNESS

awkwardness
baldness
blindness
boldness
business
fondness
goodness
hardness
indebtedness
kindness
loudness
madness
mindedness
oddness
preparedness
redness
sadness
soundness
tiredness
weirdness
wickedness

Synonyms and antonyms of two-facedness in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «two-facedness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TWO-FACEDNESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

两facedness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de dos facedness
570 millions of speakers

English

two-facedness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दो facedness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اثنين من الرياء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

два - facedness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de dois facedness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুই facedness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

duplicité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dua muka
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Doppelzüngigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

二facedness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

두 facedness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Loro-facedness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hai facedness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இரண்டு facedness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दो-चेहऱ्यावर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

İki facedness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

doppiezza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dwa facedness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

два- facedness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

două facedness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δύο - facedness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Twee- facedness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

två - facedness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

to- facedness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of two-facedness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TWO-FACEDNESS»

The term «two-facedness» is used very little and occupies the 181.751 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about two-facedness

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QUOTES WITH «TWO-FACEDNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word two-facedness.
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Dario Fo
Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TWO-FACEDNESS»

Discover the use of two-facedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to two-facedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Masks of Hamlet
Irving doubted if Polonius “would utter in her hearing the cynical words.” Still, Ophelia may have heard Polonius tell the King that he thinks her out of Hamlet's sphere; his behavior now is his two-facedness in action, he might as well put it into ...
Marvin Rosenberg, 1992
2
Jamaica Kincaid and Caribbean Double Crossings
She does so, being at "the height of [her] two-facedness," and is praised for "how nicely [she] had pronounced every word. "While she is praised for mimicking English idioms so accurately, she is acting falsely: making "pleasant little noises that ...
Linda Lang-Peralta, 2006
3
Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America
She recalls her brilliant success at reciting the poem publicly as "the height of my two-facedness" (18). But real two- facedness seldom occasions such candor, and this particular pronouncement sounds disingenuous. In fact, the true height of ...
David Cowart, 2006
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Out of My Past: Memoirs of Count Kokovtsov
He told me, among other things, that Kokovtsov was thinking one thing, saying another, and doing yet a third, believing that he is trusted in the Council and can outwit them all." This is illustrative of Krivoshein's two-facedness, for in his personal ...
Out of My Past
5
The Root Sǔb̂h in the Old Testament: With Particular ...
... the limit the related noun mesubha and the adjectives. It is perhaps not too fanciful to state that Jeremiah saw in the two-facedness of this verb a fitting picture of the two-facedness of his people. 3. The Deuteronomistic Passages of Jeremiah.
William Lee Holladay, 1958
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Bang: A Curriculum Vita of the Universe from the Big Bang to ...
Two-facedness As time, mutations and cell divisions went by, our outward cells grew more than the inward ones, slowly adapting our shape to a saucerlike structure that facilitated the collection of food. As long as food was mostly motionless or ...
Siegfried Eckleben, 2004
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Using Sartre: An Analytical Introduction to Early Sartrean ...
All we have been told is that it comes about because we somehow exploit the two -facedness of being. To see what the problem is here, all we need to do is ask whether this slippage between modes of being is something we deliberately ...
Gregory McCulloch, 2012
8
Liz Lochhead's Voices
(T, 'Introduction') The 'two-facedness' of Lochhead's language was clear in the many puns of her early poetry; by the time of Tartuffe and Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, that 'two facedness' has become a full-blown split ...
Robert Crawford, Anne Varty, 1993
9
Corporate Public Relations: A New Historical Perspective
Plausi' ble phrases and apple-polishing apologia come to mind, but at the cost of two-facedness once again. Two-facedness is hard on individuals as well as institutions. Picture the practitioner working in public relations for a major steel ...
Marvin N. Olasky, 2013
10
African Americans in the Post-Emancipation South: The ...
This two facedness, some psychologists and other scholars believe resulted from three centuries of slavery and oppression which so conditioned the African Americans' personality that, in a sense, they remained enslaved psychologically and ...
Alton Hornsby, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TWO-FACEDNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term two-facedness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jordan's U-turn on Bernie was rather astonishing
The longer I am connected with the Formula One show and the more I learn about some of its main players and their two-facedness, the deeper my despair sinks ... «gulfnews.com, Jul 15»
2
Halting new housing is no answer to state's drought
The two-facedness, say our fellow Californians, is simply outrageous. They see a complete disconnect between a government that on the one hand is enforcing ... «Daily Democrat, Jul 15»
3
Marriage under the spotlight - why successful people get divorced
"In every marriage there is a phenomena of 'two-facedness,'" Gerber explains. And when our internal voices and what we express out loud are at odds with each ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
4
Halting housing construction is no answer to California's drought
The two-facedness, say our fellow Californians, is simply outrageous. They see a complete disconnect between a government that on the one hand is enforcing ... «LA Daily News, Jul 15»
5
De Blasio Bros Down With The One Percent
Mayor Bill "Tale of Two Cities" de Blasio is nearing the second half of his second year in office and, in a dismaying but predictable bout of political two-facedness ... «Gothamist, Apr 15»
6
Shenwari rescues Afghanistan for historic win
And, while the Scots were much the same, Afghanistan took this two-facedness to a ridiculous extreme covering the gamut from brilliant to mediocre and back, ... «International Cricket Council, Feb 15»
7
DA's ombudsman complaint 'baseless' – ANC
“The duplicity and two-facedness that is the DA knows no bounds.” The ANC welcomed the Press Ombudsman's decision to dismiss the Democratic Alliance's ... «The Citizen, Jan 15»
8
Obama?s Pot Policy Is Refer Madness
But for all the executive two-facedness, the president's most egregious hypocrisy has afflicted his approach to illegal drugs. Nowhere are the costs and ... «Daily Beast, Jan 15»
9
The Yes Woman: I run away with the circus and my life turns upside …
One of my favourite things about Dublin is its two-facedness, in the best possible sense. The city will amiably morph into whatever you desire it to be. Dublin is ... «Irish Times, Nov 14»
10
Mitt on Netflix: A knight errant in an age of political cynicism
Indeed, Mitt Romney seemed to transcend mere two-facedness — on issues ranging from abortion to health care — to achieve new heights of cynicism. «The Week Magazine, Jan 14»

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