| Noun | 1. | truth - a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is the he didn't want to do it"fact - a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case" home truth - an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself) verity - an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth | |
| 2. | truth - conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"actuality - the state of actually existing objectively; "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality" falseness, falsity - the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" | |
| 3. | truth - a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day" tautology - (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology" | |
| 4. | truth - the quality of nearness to the truth or the true value; "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer questioned the truth of my account"quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare exactitude, exactness - the quality of being exact; "he demanded exactness in all details"; "a man of great exactitude" fidelity - accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal | |
| 5. | Truth - United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883) | |