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fact

n. a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case"

fact

n. a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"

fact

n. a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts"

fact

n. an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"

verity

n. an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth

certainty

n. the state of being certain; "his certainty reassured the others"

component, constituent, element, ingredient, factor

n. an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"

certainty

n. the state of being certain; "his certainty reassured the others"

burden, core, essence, effect, gist

n. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

truth, true statement

n. a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"

doctrine, creed, gospel, religious doctrine, church doctrine

n. the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group

actuality

n. the state of actually existing objectively; "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality"

certainty

n. the state of being certain; "his certainty reassured the others"

episode

n. a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events

happening, occurrence, natural event

n. an event that happens

truth, verity

n. 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"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"

doctrine, creed, gospel, religious doctrine, church doctrine

n. the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group

reality

n. the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be; "businessmen have to face harsh realities"

belief

n. any cognitive content held as true

abstraction, abstract

n. a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

belief

n. any cognitive content held as true

assumption, supposition

n. a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"

speculation, conjecture, supposition, guess, surmise

n. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

fiction

n. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

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