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Politeness vs Lying - What's the difference?

politeness | lying |

As nouns the difference between politeness and lying

is that politeness is the quality of being polite while lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

As a verb lying is

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politeness

English

(wikipedia politeness)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality of being polite.

    • Synonyms

    * (the act of being polite): affability, civility, courtliness, etiquette

    Antonyms

    * (the act of being polite): impoliteness, rudeness

    lying

    English

    (wikipedia lying)

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:
    • Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?