truth :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is that he didn't want to do it"

n. truth or reality; "in sooth"

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

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"

certainty

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

authenticity, genuineness, legitimacy

n. undisputed credibility

frankness, candor, candour, forthrightness

n. the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech

honesty, honestness

n. the quality of being honest

probity

n. complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles; "in a world where financial probity may not be widespread"; "he enjoys an exaggerated reputation for probity"

accuracy

n. the quality of being near to the true value; "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer questioned the truth of my account"

justice, justness

n. the quality of being just or fair

legality

n. lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute

honesty, honestness

n. the quality of being honest

burden, core, essence, effect, gist

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

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"

doctrine, creed, gospel, religious doctrine, church doctrine

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

authenticity, genuineness, legitimacy

n. undisputed credibility

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"

doctrine, creed, gospel, religious doctrine, church doctrine

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

certainty

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

veracity

n. unwillingness to tell lies

accuracy

n. the quality of being near to the true value; "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer questioned the truth of my account"

falsehood, falsity, untruth, false statement

n. a false statement

perjury, lying under oath, bearing false witness

n. criminal offense of making false statements under oath

fabrication, fiction, fable

n. a deliberately false or improbable account

prevarication, lie

n. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

fallacy, false belief

n. a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

falseness, falsity

n. the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity"

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