VERITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does verity mean? 

• VERITY (noun)
  The noun VERITY has 2 senses:

1. conformity to reality or actuality

2. an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth

  Familiarity information: VERITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERITY (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 ("verity" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

truth (a fact that has been verified)

 Context examples 

They were superior creatures, of a verity, gods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Man can never know the ultimate verities.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)