TRUTH

Truth

Truth is most often used to mean in accord with fact or reality, or fidelity to an original or to a standard or ideal.

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truth

Noun

  1. The state or quality of being true to someone or something
    Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.
  2. Faithfulness, fidelity.
  3. A pledge of loyalty or faith.
  4. True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
    The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.
  5. Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
    There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.
  6. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
  7. That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
    The truth is what is.
    Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.
  8. Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
    Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.
  9. Topness. (See also truth quark.)

Verb

  1. To assert as true; to declare.
    Had they ancients dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. — Ford.


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