truthfulness

truthful +‎ -ness

truthfulness (usually uncountable, plural truthfulnesses)

1. The quality of being truthful
   • 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, History as Literature:

     Many hard-working students, alive to the deficiencies of this kind of romance-writing, have grown to distrust not only all historical writing that is romantic, but all historical writing that is vivid. They feel that complete truthfulness must never be sacrificed to color.

• See also Thesaurus:veracity

• falseness
• untruthfulness

• truthfulness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.