Honesty:

Beautiful: but a very comprehensive term, generally signifying moral excellence. That which is good, pure, admirable.
Honour (Latin = honestas), integrity, moral rectitude.
Definition, a freedom from fraud, deceit, and hypocrisy, in intention, word and action.
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Honesty, forms of,
Integrity: Unselfish honesty, uprightness in mutual dealings.
Probity: Irreproachable honesty in the performance of those obligations which are contained in the unwritten code of duty and justice.
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Rectitude: Inflexible honesty in principle and practice; especially in respect to impartiality and justice.
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Sincerity: (“to be, rather than to seem”): Pure and true honesty – source and stream, motive and action, alike untainted and genuine; perhaps sincerity may be said to be honesty in thought and intention, as truthfulness is honesty in word, and probity and integrity honesty in deed.
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Honesty, when merely an external condition, is simply a veneer, devoid of sincerity: assumed, from selfish considerations, or legal constraint.
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Dishonesty is exactly opposite and contrary to honesty in its various forms; and comprehends all kinds of deceit, and fraud; such as theft, cheating, hypocrisy, lying and falsehood, treachery, and any deviating in intention, in speech, or in action, from strict probity and integrity.
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Sincerity: The Underlying Motive. From Cine Cera = without wax: an expression applied to honey strained free from wax: and also to perfect specimens of the potter’s art, wax being used to conceal the defects of imperfect productions :
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Luke Chapter 8, verse 15:
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

– The Preachers Dictionary. E F Cavalier.
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Honesty:

Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Furthermore, honesty means being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere.

– From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.