truth

Meaning

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. 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. Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
9. Topness; the property of a truth quark.
10. In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.

reality

the true

true statement

true word

truthful person

actual fact

real situation

true character

real story

validity

correct information

matters of fact

versimilitude

just price

simple truth

certaidy

> chokwadi

furthfullness

actual situation

plausibility

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹuːθ/

From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *drū- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true + -th. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).

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