sincerity
Sincerity (being honest ) describes a characteristic of personal integrity and means to stand by oneself, to one's values and ideals , and to express one's own feelings and inner convictions without pretending to be in speech and actions. Truthfulness also means to be honest with other people as well as with yourself, to stand by your mistakes and not to pretend.
It is considered a virtue , value and character trait of a person of integrity , "who speaks and acts without any cunning or falsehood, whose actions and speeches correspond perfectly with his attitude , who acts without hidden secondary thoughts and intentions". Sometimes it was pejoratively referred to as naive folly . Opposite terms to sincerity are hypocrisy and stupidity .
Pierer's Universal Lexicon defined sincerity in 1857 as:
"The consistency of speech u. of actions with mind; Opposite: lie (in words) u. Falsehood (in action). But the A. allows to conceal what no particular duty requires to be discovered, and differs from open-heartedness. "
Sincerity is one of the seven virtues of the Bushidō (Japanese code of conduct). It is also one of the Prussian virtues .
Sincerity is to be distinguished from the courage to confess , which is the (public) expression or disclosure of a fact or a conviction while accepting personal disadvantages or dangers - and thus concrete action that does not necessarily be honest and consistent (in the sense of inconsistent, consistent) Must - denotes, while honesty refers to a consistent inner basic attitude of a person who stands by himself, his values and ideals without pretending and speaks and acts in accordance with them.
The associated adjective sincere (from upright ) denotes inflexibility and unsalvage. Those who are sincere (or upright) stand by their convictions and do not bend, and also express this in a figurative sense in their posture and in a free and open look that does not evade their counterpart.
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- ↑ sincerely . Duden.de; Retrieved March 28, 2010
- ^ Johann August Eberhard: Synonymic concise dictionary of the German language . 1910, textlog.de
- ↑ Sincerity . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 1 . Altenburg 1857, p. 938 ( zeno.org ).