Mendacity

Noun

 * 1) The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
 * 2) A lie, deceit or falsehood.
 * 1) A lie, deceit or falsehood.

Related terms

 * mendacious
 * mendaciously
 * mendaciousness

Adjectives for Mendacity
conscienceless; bugbear; deliberate; habitual; disreputable.

Thesaurus
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, flam, flimflam, ghost story, half-truth, hedging, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, lying, mendaciousness, mythomania, pious fiction, prevarication, pseudology, quibbling, shifting, sidestepping, slight stretching, story, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, trumped-up story, truthlessness, untruth, untruthfulness, unveraciousness, white lie, yarn

Etymology
From post-classical mendacitas:, from  mendax:.

Translations

 * Finnish: valheellisuus,
 * German: Verlogenheit


 * Norwegian: uærlighet
 * Russian: лживость
 * Spanish: mendacidad


 * Finnish:, ,  vilppi


 * Norwegian: falskhet
 * Russian: