HELP! Word Nerd Emergency! I'm looking for the noun form of fake or phony, as a human trait. "One thing I can't stand in friends is ___." Falseness? Ersatzity? There's insincerity, but the meaning there seems slightly different... O Wise Librarians, what say ye?
Mar 20, 2012
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phoniness
- Spidra Webster
fakeness?
- Heleninstitches #teamff
superficiality
- Heleninstitches #teamff
slightly different, but 'duplicity'
- Spidra Webster
Can you give us the rest of the context you want to use it in?
- Spidra Webster
duplicitous?
- Todd Hoff
Oh, spidra said that. How about psychotic?
- Todd Hoff
Dishonesty?
- Akiva
Oooh, nice! For more context, I'm talking about when people are dishonest (usually for "politeness" or "niceness.") For example, if I say "we should hang out sometime" and you say "yeah, totally!" and then don't respond to the next 40 social invitations I give you. It's an excusable trait, but when I think it's happening I usually counter with explaining my social difficulties, and a specific request for honesty, with no hard feelings if you just aren't feeling me - hell, I've been rejected plenty of times. Some people still commit to their dishonesty, no matter what, and it drives me CRAZY. I was trying to explain this to my husband, and ran into a wall of really ugly awkward words that didn't quite get the message across. The first time you do this, that's insincerity (or politeness, something I am coming to hate). But after my specific request for the truth? I'm sorry, that's lying! And it can be really goddamn hurtful.
- Lo