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veracity

UK/vəˈɹæ.sɪ.ti/US/vəˈɹæ.sə.ti/
nounC2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,239 of 15,258leans written

Veracity is truthfulness, or accordance with the facts. Question the veracity, the veracity of the claim, doubt his veracity.

It is formal and belongs to courts and journalism, where checking the veracity of an account is the whole job. Of a person it means the habit of telling the truth rather than a single true statement.

Definitions of veracity

  1. 1nounveracityTruthfulness, or accordance with the facts.C2

    “Historians have long argued about the veracity of the old explorer's diary.”

veracity is a truthfulness.

Where it comes from

Latin verax means truthful, from verus, true.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *weh₁-

  2. Latin

    vērāx — truthful, speaking truth

  3. Medieval Latin

    vērācitās — truthfulness

  4. Old French

    veracitie

  5. Middle French

    véracité

  6. English, today

    veracity

Built from

  • vērus · Latin — true, real

From Middle French véracité, from Old French veracitie, from Medieval Latin vērācitās (“truthfulness”) (whence -acity), from Latin vērāx (“truthful, speaking truth”), from vērus (“true, real”). See very.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

veracity in the wild

  • In the age of big data, uncertainty or data veracity is one of the defining characteristics of data.

    Uncertain data

  • Data is constantly growing in volume, variety, velocity and uncertainty (1/veracity).

    Uncertain data

  • Radical skeptics hold that doubt exists as to the veracity of every belief and that certainty is therefore never justified.

    Radical skepticism

  • Since there are no public records in the town, it is difficult to establish the veracity of this information.

    Alipur Sign Language

  • Morton, coastal traditions recorded prior to 1897 indicate that the Shungwaya tradition entered Mijikenda oral literature only after this date and is therefore of doubtful veracity.

    Shungwaya

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the vērus family

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