Definition for Insincerity:

• The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard.

Synonyms for Insincerity:

• n.

  •
  • honest.
  •affectation (noun)
  • going hollywoods,
  • pre-tension,
  • putting airs,
  • pre tension,
  • showing offs,
  • putting on air,
  • in-sincerity,
  • pre-tensions,
  • in sincerity,
  • in sincerities,
  • puton,
  • putting air,
  • pre tensions,
  • in-sincerities.
  •attribute (noun)
  • insincerity,
  • falseness,
  • hollowness.
  •cant (noun)
  • dis honesty,
  • hypo criticalness,
  • hypo criticalnesses,
  • sham holinesses,
  • dis honesties,
  • hypo-criticalnesses,
  • pharisaicalnesses,
  • hypo-criticalness,
  • pecksnifferies,
  • hypocriticalnesses,
  • affected pieties,
  • dis-honesties,
  • dis-honesty.
  •deception (noun)
  • deceptiveness,
  • cozenage,
  • double-dealing,
  • boondoggles,
  • Defraudation,
  • dissimulation,
  • hokum,
  • beguilements,
  • boondoggle,
  • cunnings,
  • dupery,
  • Double dealing,
  • beguilement,
  • fast one,
  • fraudulence,
  • disinformation.
  •dishonesty (noun)
  • craftiness,
  • deceitfulness,
  • crookedness,
  • immorality,
  • unscrupulousness,
  • deviousness,
  • chicanery,
  • underhandedness,
  • treachery,
  • Improbity,
  • dishonesty,
  • prevarication,
  • feloniousness,
  • corruption,
  • traitorousness.
  •distortion (noun)
  • lies.
  •empty talk (noun)
  • lip service.
  •falsity (noun)
  • un faithfulness,
  • dis ingenuousness,
  • in-fidelities,
  • un-faithfulness,
  • un-reality,
  • in accuracy,
  • un candidnesses,
  • in fidelity,
  • un-candidness,
  • un-candidnesses,
  • dis-ingenuousness,
  • un-realities,
  • in-fidelity,
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • mis representation,
  • in-accuracy,
  • un realities,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • uncandidnesses,
  • un-faithfulnesses,
  • in accuracies,
  • in fidelities,
  • un candidness,
  • in-accuracies,
  • un faithfulnesses,
  • mis-representation,
  • un reality,
  • mis representations,
  • mis-representations.
  •hypocrisy (noun)
  • bad faiths,
  • false professions,
  • dis-plays,
  • dis plays,
  • dissemblings,
  • glibnesses,
  • unctuousnesses,
  • dis play,
  • dis-play.
  •pretense (noun)
  • feignings,
  • mis-statements,
  • pre texts,
  • dumb acts,
  • pre-tenses,
  • pre-texts,
  • fakeries,
  • posings,
  • pre tense,
  • pre-tense,
  • mis statements,
  • schticks,
  • pre-text,
  • makebelieve,
  • fakings,
  • mis statement,
  • pre tenses,
  • pre text.
  •two-facedness (noun)
  • two facedness,
  • twofacedness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • disingenuousness,
  • ambidexterity,
  • artificiality.

Paraphrases for Insincerity:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    hypocrisy.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    hypocritical.

Antonyms for Insincerity:

• n.

  • attribute
    sincerity.
  • distortion
    openness, frankness, honesty, truth, truthfulness.
  • Other antonyms:
    directness, probity, artlessness, Sincereness, unaffectedness, straightforwardness, genuineness, candor, forthrightness, openheartedness, guilelessness, naturalness.

Insincerity Sentence Examples:

• The Indian's quick ear caught the insincerity without understanding it.

• Loyal he would be to his friend and to his embassy, but that she should suspect him of insincerity, that she should not know his love, was more than he could bear.

Hypernym for Insincerity:

• n.

  • attribute
    hypocrisy.

Hyponym for Insincerity:

• n.

  • attribute
    untruthfulness.