Modern English usage. 2014.
mendacity — (n.) tendency to lie, 1640s, from M.Fr. mendacité and directly from L.L. mendacitas falsehood, mendacity, from L. mendax lying; a liar (see MENDACIOUS (Cf. mendacious)) … Etymology dictionary
Mendacity — Men*dac i*ty, n.; pl. {Mendacities}. [L. mendacitas.] 1. The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. A falsehood; a lie. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] Syn: Lying; deceit; untruth; falsehood. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
mendacity — index artifice, bad faith, deceit, deception, dishonesty, false pretense, falsification, fraud, improbity … Law dictionary
mendacity — [men das′ə tē] n. pl. mendacities [LL mendacitas < L mendax] 1. the quality or state of being mendacious 2. a lie; falsehood … English World dictionary
mendacity — [[t]mendæ̱sɪti[/t]] N UNCOUNT Mendacity is lying, rather than telling the truth. [FORMAL] For a government minister it was an astonishing display of cowardice and mendacity … English dictionary
mendacity — mendacious ► ADJECTIVE ▪ untruthful. DERIVATIVES mendaciously adverb mendacity noun. ORIGIN Latin mendax lying … English terms dictionary
mendacity — noun (plural ties) Date: 1646 1. the quality or state of being mendacious 2. lie … New Collegiate Dictionary
mendacity — /men das i tee/, n., pl. mendacities for 2. 1. the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie. 2. an instance of lying; falsehood. [1640 50; < LL mendacitas falsehood, equiv. to L mendaci (s. of mendax) given to lying, false +… … Universalium
mendacity — noun /mɛnˈdasəti/ a) The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty. b) A lie, deceit or falsehood. See Also: mendacious, mendaciously, mendaciousness … Wiktionary
mendacity — Synonyms and related words: blague, boggling, caviling, cock and bull story, credibility gap, dishonesty, dodging, equivocation, exaggeration, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fibbery, fibbing, fiction, fish story,… … Moby Thesaurus
