[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mendacity \mendac"ity\, n.; pl. mendacities. l.
   mendacitas.
   1. the quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of
      lying. --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   2. a falsehood; a lie. --sir t. browne.
      1913 webster

   syn: lying; deceit; untruth; falsehood.
        1913 webster
see also:
mendacities 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

mendacity
     n : the tendency to be untruthful ant: veracity
see also:
veracity 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

49 moby thesaurus words for "mendacity":
   blague, boggling, caviling, cock-and-bull story, credibility gap,
   dishonesty, dodging, equivocation, exaggeration, fairy tale,
   falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fibbery,
   fibbing, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story,
   half-truth, hedging, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, lying,
   mendaciousness, mythomania, pious fiction, prevarication,
   pseudology, quibbling, shifting, sidestepping, slight stretching,
   story, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, trumped-up story,
   truthlessness, untruth, untruthfulness, unveraciousness, white lie,
   yarn

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