Truth

/tɹuːθ/ · noun

Meaning

True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality..

Definitions by Sense

1. True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
2. Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
3. The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
4. (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
5. (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
6. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
7. That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
8. (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.

Example Sentences

The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.

The truth depends on, and is only arrived at, by a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.

The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.

There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.

As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.

Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; / But whispering tongues can poison truth; […]

Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.

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• truths
• trewth
• truthing
• truthed

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