Sinceritie

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Genuine and honest qualities of feeling or conduct, free from pretense, deceit, or hidden motives
2. The traits of being truthful and heartfelt in one's feelings, as shown in actions that are not feigned
3. Instances of openness and earnest good faith, where a person's words and emotions are wholly real

Etymology: Sincerity began as a word about things rather than people. Its Latin ancestor "sincerus" meant clean, pure, or unmixed, as with wine untainted by water or metal without alloy. The idea of moral honesty grew from that picture of something unadulterated. A popular story says the word comes from "sine cera," meaning "without wax," supposedly describing honey free of wax, but this is a folk explanation, not the real origin. English took the noun through Old French "sincerité," which came from the Latin "sincertias," a form built on "sincerus." The spelling in your word, ending in "-ie," is the older English form, used before the spelling settled into the modern one.