Veracity.
Synonyms:
| candor, | honesty, | reality, | truthfulness, |
| frankness, | ingenuousness, | truth, | verity. |
Truth is primarily and verity is always a quality of thought or speech, especially of speech, as in exact conformity to fact. Veracity is properly a quality of a person, the habit of speaking and the disposition to speak the truth; a habitual liar may on some occasions speak the truth, but that does not constitute him a man of veracity; on the other hand, a person of undoubted veracity may state (through ignorance or misinformation) what is not the truth. Truthfulness is a quality that may inhere either in a person or in his statements or beliefs. Candor, frankness, honesty, and ingenuousness are allied with veracity, and verity with truth, while truthfulness may accord with either. Truth in a secondary sense may be applied to intellectual action or moral character, in the former case becoming a close synonym of veracity; as, I know him to be a man of truth.
Antonyms:
| deceit, | duplicity, | falsehood, | fiction, | lie, |
| deception, | error, | falseness, | guile, | mendacity, |
| delusion, | fabrication, | falsity, | imposture, | untruth. |
Compare synonyms for DECEPTION.