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TRUENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exactness of adjustment
Example:
I marveled at the trueness of his aim
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("trueness" is a kind of...):
exactitude; exactness (the quality of being exact)
Derivation:
true (accurately placed or thrown)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being loyal
Synonyms:
loyalty; trueness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("trueness" is a kind of...):
faithfulness; fidelity (the quality of being faithful)
Attribute:
loyal (steadfast in allegiance or duty)
disloyal (deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trueness"):
staunchness; steadfastness (loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty)
allegiance; fealty (the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign))
nationalism; patriotism (love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it)
regionalism (loyalty to the interests of a particular region)
Derivation:
true (devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth)
true (worthy of being depended on)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Conformity to reality or actuality
Example:
he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities
Synonyms:
the true; trueness; truth; verity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("trueness" is a kind of...):
actuality (the state of actually existing objectively)
Attribute:
true (consistent with fact or reality; not false)
false (not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality)
Derivation:
true (consistent with fact or reality; not false)
