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truth
  1. The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
  2. (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
  3. (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
  4. True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
  5. Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
  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.
  8. (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
  9. (physics) Topness. (See also truth quark.)
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  11. Examples:
    1. “There's admittedly some truth in your claim even if it may appear at first to be preposterous.”
      “Is it really the truth that someone broke into our home and only decided to eat the brownies before leaving?”
      “A truth that cannot be denied is the fact that nothing lasts forever.”
truthiness
  1. (rare, archaic) Truthfulness. [from 19th c.]
  2. (US, colloquial) Superficial or asserted truthfulness, without recourse to evidence. [from 21st c.]
  3. (computing) The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The truthiness of the politician's claims may have convinced some voters, but upon closer examination, it became clear they were based on falsehoods.”
      “Jon Stewart is not alone in the truthiness business, as his pal Steven Colbert would put it.”
      “Problem is, every time someone brings up those inconvenient facts, you respond with more truthiness.”
truism
  1. A self-evident or obvious truth.
  2. A banality or cliché.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The other oft trotted-out truism is that the yard supports far more people than just the shipbuilders.”
      “It is a truism to say that we describe the world through the lens our own experience.”
      “It's a truism that as a general rule consumers seek bargains and businesses seek profits.”
trueness
  1. The characteristic of being true.
  2. Loyalty; faithfulness; constancy.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “I learned that obedience and trueness to God will bring us into a wealthy place.”
      “Wherever possible the trueness of analysis shall be estimated by including suitable certified reference materials in the analysis.”
      “Methods should be validated using certified reference materials which can be used to assess trueness, when available.”
true
  1. Truth.
  2. The state of being in alignment.
truing
  1. The alignment (and cutting) of a wheel (especially a grinding wheel) such that its surface is concentric with its axis
truthlessness
  1. The state of being truthless, untruthfulness.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “What error could bespeak in louder tones the utter truthlessness of his theory, or indicate in a more decisive form his sheer inacquaintance with the great principles on which the work of redemption proceeds?”
      “The truthlessness of his nature has the truthlessness of his conduct as its result.”
truthbearer
  1. (philosophy) An entity that is said to be either true or false.
truthmaker
  1. (philosophy) That entity in virtue of which a truthbearer is true.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The only argument I know of for truthmaker necessitarianism is that given by David Armstrong.”
      “It is possible for two non-synonymous sentences to have the same truthmaker.”
truthaphobia
  1. (informal, rare) An aversion to hearing the truth.
truthlikeness
truthophobia
  1. Alternative form of truthaphobia
truthness
  1. The quality or state of a statement being true.
truthmaking
  1. The determination of the truth of something.
truthseeker
  1. One who goes in quest of the truth.
truthfulness
  1. The quality of being truthful
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “And why has no one questioned the truthfulness of the semi-annual income reports required of all cadres?”
      “Their truthfulness to immediate experience gave them the lasting stamp of authenticity.”
      “Your Holiness, you are regarded as one of the greatest living icons of spirituality, piousness, truthfulness and righteousness.”
truthology
  1. (rare) The study of truth.
truthteller
  1. One who tells the truth.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The truthteller only enters politics when he aligns himself with political or interest groups.”
      “Is it possible to work, under military sponsorship, as an artist and a truthteller?”
      “Albee himself used to be a notorious truthteller, during the decade or so, from the late sixties to the late seventies, when he was drinking.”
truthtelling
  1. Telling the truth.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Put into rhyme, it would fit into many of the rueful, hortatory songs of the '60s, when truthtelling was praised both as a moral medicine and for its beauty.”
truthfulnesses
truthseekers
  1. plural of truthseeker
truthbearers
  1. plural of truthbearer
truthtellers
  1. plural of truthteller
truthmakers
  1. plural of truthmaker
truisms
  1. plural of truism
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Most baseball men subscribe to familiar truisms about talent, character, and the chemistry of winning teams.”
      “There are plenty of hackneyed truisms about ill-winds, silver-linings and darkness-before-dawns that can be tossed into the glumness.”
      “You cannot just start writing down truisms, lest you end up writing prose, so how do you start poetically?”
truths
  1. plural of truth
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Kant saw this as Hume's challenge to philosophy, understood as the quest for a priori knowledge of fundamental truths.”
      “An ability to penetrate the superficialities of the story and action to see the moral truths expressed therein.”
      “Even in the rooting out of something as abominable as pedophilia, the play shows, other moral truths can be lost.”
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