honesty

moral quality; the avoidance of engaging in deception
Thing virtue Q337349
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honesty

Summary

honesty is a virtue[1]. honesty draws 515 Wikipedia views per month (virtue category, ranking #24 of 50).[2]

Key Facts

  • honesty's instance of is recorded as virtue[3].
  • honesty's instance of is recorded as quality[4].
  • honesty is a type of absence[5].
  • honesty's Commons category is recorded as Honesty[6].
  • honesty is the opposite of deception[7].
  • honesty comprises honorableness[8].
  • honesty comprises sincerity[9].
  • honesty comprises fairness[10].
  • honesty's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[11].
  • honesty's partially coincident with is recorded as credibility[12].
  • honesty's partially coincident with is recorded as openness[13].
  • honesty's partially coincident with is recorded as reliability[14].
  • honesty's contributing factor of is recorded as trust[15].
  • honesty's different from is recorded as Q28884688[16].
  • honesty's different from is recorded as fairness[17].
  • honesty's different from is recorded as truth[18].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include virtue[3] and quality[4]. honesty is a type of absence[5]. honesty is the opposite of deception[7].

Use and Application

Components include honorableness[8], a virtue[19]; sincerity[9], a virtue[20]; and fairness[10].

Why It Matters

honesty draws 515 Wikipedia views per month (virtue category, ranking #24 of 50).[2] honesty has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] honesty is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Horcrux · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has parts
    Opposite of deception
    Has part(s) honorableness, sincerity, fairness
    Subclass of absence
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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