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Latin
Etymology
From sincerus + -tas.
Noun
sincēritās f (genitive sincēritātis); third declension
- integrity, honesty
- soundness, wholeness
- moral purity
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “sinceritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sinceritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sinceritas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sinceritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- purity of style: integritas, sinceritas orationis (not puritas)