veridical

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In India, the recording of history has mostly been neither veridical nor comprehensive.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2021

People tend to think of hallucination as a kind of false perception, in clear contrast to veridical, true-to-reality, normal perception.

From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2019

Well, to be completely veridical, Davis doesn’t end each season precisely at .247.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2019

Many of these hallucinations are termed "veridical", or truth-telling, because they coincide with real events occurring to another person.

From True Irish Ghost Stories by Seymour, St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt)

The evidence, then, leading me thus unresisting along, has led me to this main difference from our early treatment of veridical phantasms.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)