early 15c., "honesty, genuineness," from Middle French sinceritie (early 16c., Modern French sincérité) and directly from Latin sinceritatem (nominative sinceritas) "purity, soundness, wholeness," from sincerus "whole, clean, uninjured," figuratively "sound, genuine, pure, true, candid, truthful" (see sincere).
中文解释
1、sem-, sin- "one" + cer-(-cerus), from stem/root of crescere "grow" + -ity.2、字面含义:"of one growth" (i.e. "not hybrid, unmixed").
实用例句
1. Nobody that I spoke to doubted his sincerity as a politician.
和我谈过话的人中没有一个怀疑他作为一个政治家的诚意。
来自柯林斯例句
2. There was no mistaking Magda's sincerity, or her pain.