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verity

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As a noun, verity means truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.

Meanings of verity

3 meanings

noun

  1. Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.

  2. A true statement; an established doctrine.

  3. Conformity to reality or actuality

    “they debated the truth of the proposition”

    “the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat”

    “he was famous for the truth of his portraits”

    Similar: truth, the true, trueness

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: conformity to reality or actuality
truththe truetrueness

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