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Truthfulness vs Lying - What's the difference?

truthfulness | lying |

As nouns the difference between truthfulness and lying

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

As a verb lying is

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truthfulness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being truthful
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    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * untruthfulness

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    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?