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the rarest currency, valued precisely because forgery is so much easier
means the quality of consistently telling the truth and not deceiving others.
from From "truth" plus "-fulness." "Truth" descends from Old English "trēowþ" (also "trīewþ"), meaning faithfulness, fidelity, a solemn pledge — built on "trēowe," true, trusty, faithful, which is a cousin of words like "trust" and "troth" (as in "betrothed," pledging one's word). So buried in the modern noun is an older sense: not just accuracy of statement but the loyalty of someone whose word holds. The suffix "-ness" (Old English "-nes") simply turns the adjective into a quality — the state of being full of truth.
- lie cost
- deception burns more cognitive energy than telling truth
- microexpression
- faces leak real emotion in under a second
- oath origin
- ancient oaths invoked gods as lie detectors
- polygraph myth
- it measures anxiety, not honesty
- kids learn
- children master lying around age four
pinocchio — fictional character whose nose grows when he lies, created by carlo collodi in 1881
george washington cherry tree — apocryphal story about young washington confessing he chopped down the tree, symbolizing honesty