| NOUN | cognition | truth | a fact that has been verified |
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| state | truth, the true, verity, trueness | conformity to reality or actuality | |
| communication | truth, true statement | a true statement | |
| attribute | truth, accuracy | the quality of being near to the true value | |
| person | Truth, Sojourner Truth | United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883) |
| Sounds | truw'th | |
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| Rhymes | booth / Booth ... youth: 11 rhymes with uwth... | |
| Meaning | A fact that has been verified. | |
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| Narrower | home truth | An important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself) |
| verity | An enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth | |
| Broader | fact | A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred |
| Spanish | verdad | |
| Catalan | veritat | |
| Meaning | conformity to reality or actuality. | |
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| Synonyms | the true, verity, trueness | |
| Attributes | false | not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality |
| true | consistent with fact or reality | |
| Broader | actuality | The state of actually existing objectively |
| Opposite | falsity, falseness | The state of being false / false or untrue |
| Spanish | la verdad, verdad | |
| Catalan | veritat | |
| Meaning | A true statement. | |
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| Synonym | true statement | |
| Narrower | gospel, gospel truth | An unquestionable truth |
| tautology | (logic) a statement that is necessarily true | |
| truism | An obvious truth | |
| Broader | statement | A message that is stated or declared |
| Opposite | falsehood, falsity, untruth | A false statement |
| Spanish | declaración verdadera, verdad | |
| Catalan | veritat | |
| Meaning | The quality of being near to the true value. | |
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| Example | "the lawyer questioned the truth of my account" | |
| Synonym | accuracy | |
| Attributes | accurate | conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy |
| inaccurate | not exact | |
| Narrower | exactness, exactitude | The quality of being exact / exact |
| fidelity | accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal | |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Opposite | inaccuracy | The quality of being inaccurate and having errors |
| Spanish | exactitud, precisión, rigor, verdad | |
| Catalan | exactitud, precisió, rigor, veritat | |
| Meaning | United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883). | |
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| Synonym | Sojourner Truth | |
| Instance of | abolitionist, emancipationist | A reformer who favors / favors abolishing slavery |
| feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber | A supporter of feminism | |
| Spanish | Sojourner Truth | |
| Catalan | Sojourner Truth | |
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