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Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man, attributed to J. H. W. Tischbein (c. 1780). Honesty or truthfulness is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness (including straightforwardness of conduct: earnestness), along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal ...
Sincerity is the virtue of one who communicates and acts in accordance with the entirety of their feelings, beliefs, thoughts, and desires in a manner that is honest and genuine. [1] Sincerity in one's actions (as opposed to one's communications) may be called "earnestness".
Candor or candour may refer to: Candor or parrhesia, the quality of speaking candidly in rhetoric; Candour, a British far-right magazine "Candour", a song by Neck Deep from their 2014 album Wishful Thinking; Duty of candour, a concept in British law; Candor, a 2009 speculative fiction novel by Pam Bachorz
The lectures examine what Trilling described as "the moral life in process of revising itself", a period of Western history in which, argues Trilling, sincerity became the central aspect of moral life (first observed in pre–Age of Enlightenment literature such as the works of Shakespeare), later to be replaced by authenticity (in the ...
Integrity is the quality of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. [1] [2] In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or earnestness of one's actions.
Each subscale contains items that measure both the trait and the opposite of the trait (e.g. the sincerity scale has items that measure both sincerity and insincerity, with insincerity scores being reverse coded). Each item is measured on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree). In the 100-item version of the HEXACO ...
Candor and innocence [7] garden "I share your sentiments" [3] [5] red: Beauty unknown to possessor orange: Joy and sunshine yellow: Happiness and joy blue: Long-term loyalty and trust purple: Thoughtfulness wild "I will think of it" [3] [5] Dame's violet: Watchfulness [5] Dandelion
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...