verity
3
8.4
- noun
- /ˈvɛrɪti/
- Formal
:
verdad
- The scientist emphasized the importance of verity in her research findings to gain the trust of the public.
- eternal verities
It's more like, imagine there are eternal verities, truth, beauty, justice, love, courage, fortitude, compassion.
- It's more like, imagine there are eternal verities, truth, beauty, justice, love, courage, fortitude, compassion.
- And he has stained the elves who have this power in Verity or Fable with his own stain.
Examples
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She is here especially because of one simple Verity that she was taught as a young girl.
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And Bryan was right: I had no more clue about the eternal verities than anybody else did.
Fiction book (1998) -
No, there is a particular verity in the teaching of the Patripassians.
Academic text (1990) -
But I address myself to naturalists who I think can respond to its verity from their own experience.
Academic text (2007) -
Honest practitioners seek truth in spiritual verity, reason in moral certitude.
Fiction book (1991) -
There are some aesthetic verities that transcend reality.
Fiction book (1994) -
If truth is no longer the eternal verity that science purports to achieve, then it assumes the status of narrative.
Academic text (1992) -
In the process, the verities of many communities are expunged or marginalized.
Academic text (2002) -
It's more like, imagine there are eternal verities, truth, beauty, justice, love, courage, fortitude, compassion.
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Neisser (1988) argued, however, that researchers' emphasis on the verity of memory has missed memory's most important function, which is its utility.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Something that can be shown to be true, not an opinion
∞
1.0
A fact that shows how things really are
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7.6
Being honest and not telling lies
8
3.5
A state of being accurate and matching facts or rules
4
4.4
A fact that is completely true and cannot be doubted
1
7.3
How often a computer program's answers are accurate and not wrong
1
6.5
A quality of being true and based on real information
1
8.3
How much something is shown or said to be true
Being true and accurate about real facts
How accurate something is compared with facts or a standard
The degree to which something matches true information or real events
Antonyms
How True
Surface Forms
Morphology
verity = ver + ity
Although the word is historically built from the Latin root 'ver-' + the nominalizing suffix '-ity', the root is not a productive standalone English word and the meaning 'truth' is not transparently derivable by an average B1 learner from the visible parts.
Etymology
Verity comes from the Latin veritas, which means 'truth'. Think of verity like verify or very, which both come from the same root 'true', so a verity is an important or deep truth.