menˈdasəd.ē, -daas-, -sətē, -i noun
( -es )
Etymology: Late Latin mendacitas, from Latin mendac-, mendax + -itas -ity
: the quality or state of being mendacious : the practice or an instance of lying : falsehood
blushed … at his own mendacity — J.D.Beresford
man's peculiar type of mendacity — Leo Stein