truth

Meanings

Noun

• True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
• Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
• The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
• Faithfulness, fidelity.
• A pledge of loyalty or faith.
• Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
• That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
• Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
• Topness; the property of a truth quark.
• In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.

Verb

• To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
• To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
• To tell the truth.

Related

Opposite words

• falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, drivel, untruth, half-truth

Origin

• From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ, 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").