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VERITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("verity" is a kind of...):
truth (a fact that has been verified)
Sense 2
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 ("verity" 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)
