truth

n.

1. Conformity to reality

   truthfulness, veracity, correctness, sincerity, verity, candor, openness, honesty, fidelity, frankness, revelation, exactitude, authenticity, factualism, exactness, infallibility, precision, perfection, rectitude, certainty, genuineness, accuracy, fact, the gospel truth*, straight dope*, inside track*, the nitty-gritty*, the facts*, the case*.

   Antonyms lie*, deception*, falsehood. *

2. Integrity

   trustworthiness, honor, probity; see honesty 1.

truth suggests conformity with the facts or with reality, either as an idealized abstraction Pilate said to him, ``What is truth?"" or in actual application to statements, ideas, acts, etc. there is no truth in that rumor; veracity, as applied to persons or to their utterances, connotes habitual adherence to the truth I cannot doubt your veracity; verity, as applied to things, connotes correspondence with fact or with reality the verity of that thesis; verisimilitude, as applied to literary or artistic representations, suggests a degree of plausibility sufficient to induce audience belief the characterizations in that novel lack verisimilitude

in truth