TRUENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trueness mean? 

• TRUENESS (noun)
  The noun TRUENESS has 3 senses:

1. conformity to reality or actuality

2. the quality of being loyal

3. exactness of adjustment

  Familiarity information: TRUENESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conformity to reality or actuality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

the true; trueness; truth; verity

Context example:

he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities

Hypernyms ("trueness" is a kind of...):

actuality (the state of actually existing objectively)

Attribute:

true (consistent with fact or reality; not false)

false (not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality)

Derivation:

true (consistent with fact or reality; not false)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being loyal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

loyalty; trueness

Hypernyms ("trueness" is a kind of...):

faithfulness; fidelity (the quality of being faithful)

Attribute:

loyal (steadfast in allegiance or duty)

disloyal (deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trueness"):

staunchness; steadfastness (loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty)

allegiance; fealty (the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign))

nationalism; patriotism (love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it)

regionalism (loyalty to the interests of a particular region)

Derivation:

true (devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth)

true (worthy of being depended on)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Exactness of adjustment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

I marveled at the trueness of his aim

Hypernyms ("trueness" is a kind of...):

exactitude; exactness (the quality of being exact)

Derivation:

true (accurately placed or thrown)