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the only currency that can't be counterfeited, though everyone keeps trying.
means the quality of being genuine and honest, meaning exactly what you say without pretense or deceit.
from From Latin 'sincerus,' meaning 'pure, clean, sound' — originally of things unmixed and untainted, like wine without water. There's a charming folk story that it comes from 'sine cera,' 'without wax,' supposedly describing honest sculptors who didn't hide cracks in their marble with wax — but scholars reject this; the 'wax' tale is too neat to be true. The real root is murkier, the second part possibly tied to a word for 'growth,' suggesting something that grew whole and unspoiled. It entered English in the 1500s, already carrying its sense of unfaked feeling.
- latin root
- possibly sine cera, without wax over cracks
- hard to fake
- the attempt itself proves you lack it
- polygraph kryptonite
- true belief beats lie detectors every time
- trust engine
- entire economies run on assumed good faith
let it be documentary — beatles filmed in 1969 showing raw, unglamorous band dissolution rather than polished image