mendacities

Noun

mendacity (countable and uncountable, plural mendacities)

1. (uncountable) The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
   • Mendacity is not a uniform offence: it changes its colour according to the nature and substance of the offence to which it is rendered or endeavoured to be rendered subservient. Mendacity, employed in drawing down upon an innocent head the destroying sword of justice, is murder: murder, encompassed...1817, Jeremy Bentham, “Swear Not at All. Mat[thew] v. 34.”, in “Swear Not at All:” Containing an Exposure of the Needlessness and Mischievousness, as well as Antichristianity, of the Ceremony of an...
2. (countable) A deceit, falsehood, or lie.
   • The scandalous bronze-lacker age, of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotencies and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the Pit swallow it.1858, Thomas Carlyle, “Visit to Dresden”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great. … In Four Volumes, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly, →OCLC, book VI...