veritynoun
uk/ˈver.ə.ti/us/ˈver.ə.t̬i/formal[ U ] the quality of being true:
In the film, he plays a spy whose mission is to confirm the verity of a secret military document.
[ C ] a belief, idea, or principle that is generally accepted as being true:
She has spent her life in a search for eternal/scientific/universal verities.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reality and truth
- a slice of life idiom
- actuality
- apothegm
- authenticity
- fact
- gospel
- home truth
- immediacy
- McCoy
- practice
- reality
- slice
- the genuine article idiom
- the real McCoy
- the real thing 1
- the real world 2
- truth is stranger than fiction idiom
- truth will out idiom
- veracity
- verisimilitude
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