veracity

English

Etymology

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From Middle French véracité, from Old French veracitie, from Medieval Latin vērācitās (“truthfulness”), from Latin vērāx (“truthful, speaking truth”), from vērus (“true, real”). See very.

Noun

veracity (countable and uncountable, plural veracities)

1. (uncountable, of a person) The quality of speaking or stating the truth; truthfulness.
   • 1933, James Hilton, Lost Horizon:

     Of course if you don't accept Conway's story, it means that you doubt either his veracity or his sanity—one may as well be frank.

2. (countable) Something that is true; a truthful statement; a truth.
3. (uncountable) Agreement with the facts; accordance with the truth; accuracy or precision.
4. Act of being exact and accurate.
5. Correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:veracity

Translations

(of a person) the quality of speaking or stating the truth; truthfulness

• Arabic: صِدْق m (ṣidq)
• Catalan: veracitat (ca) f
• Czech: pravdomluvnost f
• Esperanto: vereco
• Finnish: todenmukaisuus (fi), totuudenmukaisuus (fi)
• French: véracité (fr) f
• Galician: veracidade (gl) f
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• Georgian: სიმართლე (simartle), უტყუარობა (uṭq̇uaroba)
• German: Aufrichtigkeit (de)
• Greek: ειλικρίνεια (el) f (eilikríneia)
• Portuguese: veracidade (pt) f
• Russian: правди́вость (ru) f (pravdívostʹ)
• Spanish: veracidad (es) f
• Swedish: sanning (sv)
• Tagalog: katotohanan (tl)

something that is true; a truthful statement; a truth

• French: vérité (fr) f
• Galician: verdade (gl) f
• Georgian: სიმართლე (simartle), უტყუარობა (uṭq̇uaroba)
• Greek: αλήθεια (el) f (alítheia)
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• Portuguese: verdade (pt) f
• Russian: пра́вда (ru) f (právda)
• Swedish: sanning (sv)

agreement with the facts; accordance with the truth; accuracy or precision

• Finnish: todenmukaisuus (fi), totuudenmukaisuus (fi)
• French: exactitude (fr) f
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• Galician: exactitude (gl) f
• Greek: ακρίβεια (el) f (akríveia), ορθότητα (el) f (orthótita)

Further reading

• “veracity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “veracity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.