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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that truly exists, is real |
| Synonyms: | achievement, actualization, attainment, brass tacks, fact, materiality, materialization, real world, reality, straight stuff, substance, substantiality, truth, what it is |
| Main Entry: | proof |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evidence, authentication |
| Synonyms: | affidavit, argument, attestation, averment, case, certification, chapter and verse, clincher, clue, confirmation, corroboration, credentials, criterion, cue*, data, demonstration, deposition, documents, establishment, exhibit, facts, goods*, grabber, grounds, information, lowdown, nitty-gritty, paper trail, picture, reason, reasons, record, scoop*, score*, skinny*, smoking gun, straight stuff, substantiation, testament, testimony, trace, validation, verification, warrant, wherefore, why*, whyfor, witness |
| Notes: | evidence (from Latin e- 'out' + videre 'to see') is information that helps form a conclusion; proof is factual information that verifies a conclusion |
| Antonyms: | hypothesis, theory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | veracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truth |
| 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, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word* |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, falsity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | veraciousness |
| 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: | veridicality |
| 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, veraciousness, verisimilitude, verity, word* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | proof |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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apodictic, apodictical, categorical, consectary, consequential, crucial, decisive, deducible, demonstrable, demonstrated, demonstrating, demonstrative, endeictic, evident, following, inferential, irrefragable, irresistible, probative, proved, receptary, unanswerable, unanswered, unconfuted, unrefuted
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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].
-adjectives
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).
-adverbs
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).
-phrases
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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