insincerity

Questions about insincerity

What does insincerity mean?

insincerity means "the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical".

How many syllables are in insincerity?

insincerity has 5 syllables and divides as in-sin-ce-ri-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for insincerity?

Close synonyms include falseness, hollowness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of insincerity?

The recorded antonyms are sincerity.

Is insincerity a common word?

insincerity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.