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veracity

/vəˈræsədi/
/vəˈræsɪti/
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Other forms: veracities

The word veracity means truthfulness or accuracy. If you question the veracity of your friend's story about being invited to tea at Buckingham Palace, you wonder whether it's true.

At a legal trial, witnesses must swear to the veracity of their testimony, promising that everything they say will be the truth and nothing but the truth. Veracity shares the Latin root verus, "truth," with words including verify, "confirm the truth of," and veritable, "true or real."

Definitions of veracity
  1. noun
    unwillingness to tell lies
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    antonyms:
    mendacity
    the tendency to be untruthful
    type of:
    truthfulness
    the quality of being truthful
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Commonly confused words

veracious / voracious

Voracious describes someone super hungry, like a zombie or a wolf. A voracious appetite makes you want to eat a whole cake. Veracious (with an "e") means truthful, as in a veracious first president who cannot tell a lie.

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