Definitions: (1) able to perceive the truth; (2) inclined to speak the truth; honest; accurate; precise
Derivation: Latin, “truthful;” Old English, “true;” Old High German, “trust”
Note: Not to be confused with voracity, which refers to greed or an excessive appetite – to devour.
Synonym: veridical <coinciding with reality>; unbridled
Poetry:
‘Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.’ – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
— John Keats (1795–1821) English poet
Quote: Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet & philosopher
(VERISIMILITUDE)
Definitions: (1) the appearance of being true or real; (2) in philosophy, “truthlikeness” is the question of how close is a proposition to truth or to another proposition; (3) coinciding with reality; veridical
Derivation: Latin, “seems probable”
Observations:
• The ‘uncanny effect:’ When seeing something fake, the feeling or judgement of how close it is to being real. Or hearing some theory, or bit of news, how true it seems to be to the truth.
• The Spirit of Truth, the “new teacher,” is the soul’s barometer of living the fruits of the spirit.