home truth
Uncomfortable honest observation
A home truth is an uncomfortable fact about oneself that someone else points out—criticism that stings because it's accurate.
The phrase usually appears in the plural: It's time someone told him a few home truths.
The "home" suggests the truth hits close to where you live.
- factVerifiable piece of information
- realityWhat actually exists
- brutal honestyUnsparing directness in speech
- candorUnguarded truthfulness
- telling it like it isSpeaking plain, unfiltered truth
frankness · straight talk · confrontation · hard to hear · bluntness · no sugarcoating · forthrightness · sincerity · directness · wake-up call · feedback · face the music · embarrassment · self-examination · self-reflection · moment of clarity · discomfort · communication
- honestyhonesty, candor, sincerity, dishonesty, frankness
- truthsfacts, fact, reality, verity, verities
- harsh realitiesreality check, brutal honesty, harsh criticism, harsh reality, reality
home truthlie
Deliberate falsehood
falsehood · deception · fabrication · untruth · fiction
home truthflattery
Excessive insincere praise
sweet talk · blandishment · sycophancy · false praise · empty praise
home truthfantasy
Imaginative mental wandering
delusion · self-deception · self-delusion · self-flattery · illusion
home, truth, homes, homed, homing, homely, homelier, homeliest, homeliness