veridical
/vɪˈrɪdɪk(ə)l
/adjective formal
1Truthful: [as noun]: Pilate’s attitude to the veridical...
- According to Buddhist prama tenets, there are only two valid and authoritative means of veridical cognition.
- It is virtually impossible to find a veridical characterization of the secular left from anywhere on the right.
- This system cannot distinguish veridical from false memories, organize the retrieval output, or guide a retrieval search.
1.1Coinciding with reality: such memories are not necessarily veridical...
- But there was no assumption that this was a veridical model of reality.
- Less aggressive children, on the other hand, may have been more veridical in their self-descriptions.
- This criterion presupposes that the protocol algorithm is veridical.
Derivatives
veridicality
- The rankings presented here were those that were found reasonable by one of the authors - they have no further claim of veridicality.
- This provided a stable framework from which to generate hypotheses, and a sense of conceptual unity and veridicality about the work.
veridically
- For example, we might veridically observe a surface through a microscope of the same power which did not appear to have any bumps or crevices.
- Findings showed that adults learned the variation veridically when it was simple, but failed when it was more complex.
- I have not seen a veridically mounted capacitive sensor.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin veridicus (from verus 'true' + dicere 'say') + -al.
Rhymes
- first motion
- first-moving
- first name
- first-naming
- First Nation
- firstness
- first night
- first-nighter
- first novel
- first of all
- first off
- first offender
- first officer
- first-order
- first past the post
- first penny
- First People
- first person
- first-person shooter
- first pointed
- First Point of Aries
- first polar
- first position
- first post
- first principles