Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Adherence to the truth; truthfulness. synonym: truth.
  • noun Conformity to fact or truth; accuracy.
  • noun A true statement.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The fact or character of being veracious or true.
  • noun Consistency with truth; agreement with actual fact: as, the veracity of the senses.
  • noun That which is true; that in which truth inheres; also, abstract truth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable Truthfulness
  • noun countable Something that is true
  • noun uncountable Accuracy or precision
  • noun act of being exact and accurate.
  • noun correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun unwillingness to tell lies

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Medieval Latin vērācitās, from Latin vērāx, vērāc-, true; see veracious.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French veracitie, from Medieval Latin vērācitās ("truthfulness"), from Latin vērāx ("truthful, speaking truth"), from vērus ("true, real"); see very.

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Examples

  • You'll find the veracity is about 6 parts out of 7.

    Repugnant Behavior on the Part of One NASA Employee - NASA Watch 2008

  • "I'm telling the truth," assured Squeaky, who sees "I say it's true" as irrefutable proof positive of veracity, or would if she had the faintest idea what the word "veracity" means.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tallulah Morehead 2011

  • We represent trust of sources with what we refer to as the veracity score.

    UX Magazine - Comments 2010

  • I think that the corroboration from the Montgomery County PD that they were there should be sufficient, regardless of the denials issuing forth from Chief Lanier and her people (who have prevaricated before and whose veracity is suspect).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Item on the SEIU Protest 2010

  • The one scientific discipline directly applicable to biblical veracity is archeology and I would like to see the digging continue.

    An Amazing First Century 2009

  • The veracity issue HAS been settled – the right wing bloggers who thought he was a hoax turned out to be lacking in veracity and have no credibility on the issue and instead just went in search of other reasons they made up.

    Matthew Yglesias » A Question of Motives 2007

  • After a thousand people say, “Don't do it dude” on blogs, veracity is fairly well established.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • But the thing that lends a character's voice historical veracity is the quality of the quotidian details — that the journalist in "The One in White" is drinking blue agave, for example.

    Faraway Voices 2004

  • But the thing that lends a character's voice historical veracity is the quality of the quotidian details — that the journalist in "The One in White" is drinking blue agave, for example.

    Faraway Voices 2004

  • But the thing that lends a character's voice historical veracity is the quality of the quotidian details — that the journalist in "The One in White" is drinking blue agave, for example.

    Faraway Voices 2004

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  • 'Aufrichtigkeit', 'Glaubwürdigkeit' TOP 10: 3)

    S: Truthfulness, Honesty, Correctness, Accuracy

    A: DECEIT (Betrug), Untruthfulness, Incorrectness, Inaccuracy

    October 25, 2013