truth

English

/tɹuːθ/

noun
Definitions
  • 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.
  • (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
  • (obsolete) 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.
  • (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
  • (physics) Topness; the property of a truth quark.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English trouthe inherited from Old English trēowþ inherited from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (contract, promise, covenant) derived from Proto-Indo-European *drū- (tree), *deru- (solid, hard, firm, be firm) suffix from English true.

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