different between mendicity vs mendacity

English

Etymology

From Old French mendicité, from Latin mendicitas.

Noun

mendicity (countable and uncountable, plural mendicities)

1. the state of being a beggar; mendicancy or beggary

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:poverty

English

Etymology

From Late Latin mendacitas , from Latin mend?x (“deceitful, deceptive, lying”) +? -it?s (“suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being”). Mend?x is derived from mentior (“to deceive, lie”) (from m?ns, mentis (“mind; intellect; judgment, reasoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”)) + -?x (“suffix forming adjectives expressing a tendency or inclination”), or from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“to fault”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?n?dæs?ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m?n?dæs?ti/, [-?i]
• Hyphenation: men?da?ci?ty

Noun

mendacity (countable and uncountable, plural mendacities)

1. (uncountable) The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
   • 1955 March 24 (first performance), Tennessee Williams [pseudonym; Thomas Lanier Williams III], Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, published in Jack Gaver, editor, Critics’ Choice: New York Drama Critics’ Circle Prize Plays 1935–55, New York, N.Y.: Hawthorn Books, 1955, ?OCLC, Act II, page 652, column 2:

     Big Daddy: […] Think of all the lies I got to put up with!—Pretenses! Ain't that mendacity? Having to pretend stuff you don't think or feel or have any idea of?
2. (countable) A deceit, falsehood, or lie.
   • 2018: "Donald Trump’s Fake News Mistake" by Jack Shafer, Politico

     He would have you believe that every error we make is deliberate, that journalists have somehow ginned up a unified conspiracy of lies and mendacities against him.

Related terms

• mendacious
• mendaciously
• mendaciousness

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References

Further reading

• deception on Wikipedia.Wikipedia