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veraciousness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | veracity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, authenticity, candor, correctness, credibility, exactitude, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, gospel, honest-to-god truth, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, like it is, openness, precision, probity, real McCoy, reality, rectitude, rightness, sincerity, straight stuff, trueness, truism, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, veridicality, verisimilitude, verity, word* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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above all praise, admirable, angelic, as good as one's word, beyond all praise, candid, chivalrous, coeliginous, commendable, conscientious, constant, constant as the Northern Star, correct, creditable, desertful, deserving, duteous, dutiful, equitable, even-handed, excellent, exemplary, fair, fair and above board, faithful, frank, gentlemanlike, godlike, good, heaven-born, high-minded, high-principled, high-spirited, honest, honest as daylight, honorable, impartial, impravable, incorruptible, innocent, inviolable, inviolate, jealous of honor, just, laudable, loyal, matchless, meritorious, moral, nice, noble, open and above board, open-hearted, overscrupulous, peerless, praiseworthy, punctilious, punctual, pure, religious, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, saintlike, saintly, scrupulous, seraphic, square, stainless, staunch, sterling, straightforward, strict, supramundane, tender-conscienced, to be depended upon, true, true as the needle to the north, true to one's colors, true to the core, true-blue, true-hearted, trustworthy, trusty, unbetrayed, unbought, unbribed, unbroken, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undebauched, undefiled, undepraved, unperjured, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, unviolated, unworldly, upright, veracious, virtuous, well-intentioned, worthy
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| Main Entry: | simplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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ascetic, austere, bald, chaste, cynical, dry, dull, exoteric, flat, free from affectation, free from ornament, homely, homespun, inornate, monotonous, neat, ordinary, over, pure, puritanical, saxon, severe, simple, simplistic, unadorned, unaffected, unarrayed, undecked, ungarnished, unornamented, untrimmed, unvaried, unvarnished
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| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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accurate, actual, apodictic, as good as one's word, authentic, bona fide, candid, categorically true, certain, constant, correct, curious, definite, delicate, exact, faithful, fine, frank, genuine, guileless, honest, in its true colors, ingenuous, just, legitimate, literal, mathematical, natural, nice, official, open, open, ostensible, outspoken, particular, precise, punctual, pure, real, realistic, religiously exact, right, rigid, rigorous, scientific, scrupulous, simple, solid, sound, sterling, straightforward, strict, substantial, substantially true, tangible, true, true, true as gospel, true to the letter, trustworthy, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, uncolored, unconfuted, undisguised, undissembling, undistorted, unerring, unexaggerated, unfeigned, unflattering, unideal, unimagined, unimpeachable, unperjured, unrefuted, unreserved, unromantic, unsophisticated, unvarnished, valid, veracious, veridical, veritable, well, well
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| Main Entry: | objectiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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adscititious, adventitious, ascititious, derived from without, extraneous, extrinsic, extrinsical, implanted, incidental, ingrafted, modal, non, outward
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| Concept: | Freedom. |
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-nouns
freedom, liberty, independence; license (permission); facility., scope, range, latitude, play; free play, full play, free scope, full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall., franchise, denization; free man, freed man, livery man; denizen., autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade; noninterference; Monroe Doctrine [U.S.]., immunity, exemption; emancipation (liberation); enfranchisement, affranchisement., free land, freehold; allodium; frankalmoigne, mortmain., bushwhacker; freelance, free thinker, free trader; independent.
-verbs
be free; have scope, have the run of, have one's own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses; go at large, feel at home, paddle one's own canoe; stand on one's legs, stand on one's rights; shift for oneself., take a liberty; make free with, make oneself quite at home; use a freedom; take leave, take French leave., set free (liberate); give a loose to (permit); allow scope to, give scope to; give a horse his head., make free of; give the freedom of, give the franchise; enfranchise, affranchise., laisser faire, laisser aller; live and let live; leave to oneself; leave alone, let alone.
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free, free as air; out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free; left alone, left to oneself., in full swing; uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled., unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled., unrestricted, unlimited, unconditional; absolute; discretionary (optional)., unassailed, unforced, uncompelled., unbiassed, spontaneous., free and easy; at ease, at one's ease; degage, quite at home; wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished.
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freely; ad libitum (at will).
-phrases
ubi libertas ibi patria.
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| Antonyms: | subjection |
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| Concept: | Simplicity. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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simplicity; plainness, homeliness; undress, chastity.
-verbs
be simple, render simple; simplify.
-adjectives
simple, plain; homely, homespun; ordinary, household., unaffected; free from affectation, free from ornament; simplex munditiis [Horace]; sans facon, en deshabille., chaste, inornate, severe., unadorned, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unarranged, untrimmed, unvarnished., bald, flat, dull.
-phrases
veritatis simplex oratio est.
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| Antonyms: | ornament |
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| Concept: | [Object of knowlege.] Truth. |
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fact, reality (existence); plain matter of fact; nature (principle); truth, verity; gospel; orthodoxy; authenticity; veracity; correctitude., accuracy, exactitude; exactness, preciseness; precision, delicacy; rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality; clockwork precision (regularity); conformity to rule; nicety., orthology; ipsissima verba; realism., plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth; nuda veritas; the very thing; not an illusion; real Simon Pure; unvarnished tale; the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; just the thing.
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be true, be the case; stand the test; have the true ring; hold good, hold true, hold water., render true, prove true; substantiate (evidence)., get at the truth (discover).
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real, actual (existing); veritable, true; right, correct; certain; substantially true, categorically true; true to the letter, true as gospel; unimpeachable; veracious; unreconfuted, unconfuted; unideal, unimagined; realistic., exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just; strict, severe; close (similar); literal; rigid, rigorous; scrupulous (conscientious); religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific; faithful, constant, unerring; curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine; clean-cut, clear-cut., genuine, authentic, legitimate; othodox; official, ex officio., pure, natural, sound, sterling; unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, uncolored; in its true colors; pukka., well-grounded, well founded; solid, substantial, tangible, valid; undistorted, undisguised; unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering.
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truly; verily, indeed, in reality; with truth (veracity); certainly (certain); actually (existence); in effect (intrinsically)., exactly; ad amussim; verbatim, verbatim et literatim; word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis; ad unguem; to an inch; to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T; au pied de la lettre; neither more nor less; in every respect, in all respects; sous tous les rapports; at any rate, at all events; strictly speaking.
-phrases
the truth, the fact is; rem acu tetigisti; en suivant la verite; ex facto jus oritur; la verita e figlia del empo; locos y ninos dicen la verdad; nihil est veritatis luce dulcius [Cicero]; veritas nunquam perit [Seneca]; veritatem dies aperit [Seneca]; the
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| Antonyms: | error |
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| Concept: | Veracity. |
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-nouns
veracity; truthfulness, frankness; truth, sincerity, candor, honesty, fidelity; plain dealing, bona fides; love of truth; probity; ingenuousness (artlessness)., the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; honest truth, sober truth (fact) [more]; unvarnished tale; light of truth.
-verbs
speak the truth, tell the truth; speak by the card; paint in its true colors, show oneself in one's true colors; make a clean breast (disclose); speak one's mind (be blunt) [more]; not lie, not deceive [more].
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truthful, true; veracious, veridical; scrupulous (honorable); sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved; open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted; honest, trustworthy; undissembling (dissemble [more]); guileless, pure; truth-loving; unperjured; true blue, as good as one's word; unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide; outspoken, ingenuous (artless); undisguised (real).
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truly (really); in plain words; in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth; as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole; honor bright; troth; in good sooth, in good earnest; unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth, sooth to say, bona fide, in foro conscientiae; without equivocation; cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart; by my troth (affirmation).
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di il vero a affronterai il diavolo; Dichtung und Wahrheit; esto guod esse videris; magna est veritas et praevalet; "that golden key that opes the palace of eternity" [Milton]; veritas odium parit; veritatis simplex oratio est; verite sans peur.
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| Antonyms: | falsehood; untruth; deception |
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