veridical
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9.9
- adjective
- /vəˈrɪdɪkəl/
- Formal
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verídico
- "The question of whether religious concepts are veridical will have to be asked by the faithful themselves, who can say," Tillich went on, "... whether the medium through which they experience ultimate concern expresses real ultimacy."
- veridical perception
But that's, you know, so clearly IPS cells that are dissociated don't tell you about circuits or even synapses in a really veridical kind of way.
- But that's, you know, so clearly IPS cells that are dissociated don't tell you about circuits or even synapses in a really veridical kind of way.
Examples
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How can we take their experiences as veridical reports of the afterlife?
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Even though the veridical narrative framework breaks down at this point, the poet accepts Alexander's adventures as worthy of remembering.
Academic text (1994) -
Nor will all the documents be veridical.
Academic text (1991) -
Among the Urat, veridical descent is clearly understood.
Academic text (1992) -
One is the question of how we know about these things without basing it on other (veridical) knowledge we have.
Blog text (20) -
Both methods permit comparisons between false recall and veridical recall.
Academic text (1997) -
Social identity is complex in a system that both keeps a record of veridical descent and assigns fictive descent status through naming.
Academic text (1992) -
Although this actually produced more veridical estimates of the percentage of sexually active adults who engage in common sexual activities, it produced highly inflated estimates for less usual activities.
Academic text (1995) -
So experiencing color patches and shapes, and cognizing them as a coin or tabletop, as G. E. Moore did, counts and is verifiable, falsifiable, and therefore veridical.
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The scientist presented a veridical account of the experiment's results to ensure transparency.
Synonyms
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Happening in real life, not imagined
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7.4
Being really true or real to make a description stronger
An account or statement that gives true facts
Antonyms
How True
Surface Forms
Morphology
veridical = verid + al
Although it contains the familiar adjectival suffix '-al', the root 'verid' is not a productive or recognisable English morpheme for most learners, so the meaning 'truthful/accurate' is not derivable from known English components.
Etymology
Veridical comes from Latin parts veri- meaning 'true' and -dic meaning 'to say', the same idea you find in verdict. So veridical means 'true' or 'real', which is why a veridical memory is one that matches what actually happened.