truthfulness

From truthful + -ness.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹuθfəlnəs/

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truthfulness (usually uncountable, plural truthfulnesses)

1. The quality of being truthful.
   • 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, History as Literature:

     Many hard-working students, alive to the deficiencies of this kind of romance-writing, have grown to distrust not only all historical writing that is romantic, but all historical writing that is vivid. They feel that complete truthfulness must never be sacrificed to color.

• See also Thesaurus:veracity

• falseness
• untruthfulness

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “truthfulness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.