veracity

veracity
n
1. truthfulness, honesty, honestness, veraciousness; frankness, openness, candor, candidness, straightforwardness, plainness, bluntness; ingenuousness, artlessness, guilelessness, naivetd.
2. sincerity, sincereness, earnestness; uprightness, integrity, probity, righteousness, honorableness, up-standingness; ethicalness, ethicality, morality, Tightness, conscionableness, uncorruptedness.
3. accuracy, faithfulness, honesty, closeness, strictness, literalness; factuality, factualness, actuality, ac-tualness, reality, realness, authenticity, genuineness; truth, vaidity, validness, soundness, credibility, credi-bleness, believability, believableness.
4. accuracy, accurateness, correctness, exactness, exactitude, precision, preciseness.
5. a truth, verity, Archaic. troth; fact, certainty, certitude;, principle, rule, axiom, law, fundamental, canon; theorem, Math. proposition.

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