Lying Meaning

Lying Meaning

Lying Meaning defined in easy to understand terms for everyone to understand.  What is the meaning of lying, there are at least 5 possible meanings:

1. Lie accidentally, communicated message without conscious understanding of the context.
2. Conceal or cover up something.
3. Manipulate others to gain advantage over them.
4. Compulsive lying. Possibly in grained through repetition or by some other personality disorder.
5. Irrelevance, indifference to the consequence/s of lying.

Dictionary Definition:

Noun: the telling of lies, or false statements; untruthfulness: From boyhood, he has never been good at lying.

Synonyms: falsehood, falsity, mendacity, prevarication. Antonyms: truth, veracity.

Adjective: telling or containing lies; deliberately untruthful; deceitful; false: a lying report. Synonyms: deceptive, misleading, mendacious, fallacious; sham, counterfeit. -Wikipedia.

Morality and ethics

Ethics (also known as moral philosophy) is that branch of philosophy which addresses questions about morality. The word ‘ethics’ is “commonly used interchangeably with ‘morality’ … and sometimes it is used more narrowly to mean the moral principles of a particular tradition, group, or individual. -Wikipedia.