Synonyms for truth
noun reality, validity- accuracy
- authenticity
- certainty
- fact
- legitimacy
- principle
- truthfulness
- veracity
- actuality
- axiom
- case
- correctness
- dope
- exactitude
- exactness
- facts
- factuality
- factualness
- genuineness
- gospel
- infallibility
- maxim
- nitty-gritty
- perfection
- picture
- precision
- rectitude
- rightness
- scoop
- score
- trueness
- truism
- verisimilitude
- verity
- factualism
- gospel truth
- honest truth
- inside track
- naked truth
- plain talk
- unvarnished truth
- whole story
Antonyms for truth
- falsehood
- falseness
- flaw
- imperfection
- imprecision
- inaccuracy
- inexactness
- dishonesty
- disloyalty
- invention
- lie
- misrepresentation
- untruth
axiom
correctness
deed
Word Origin & History
Old English triewð (West Saxon), treowð (Mercian) "faithfulness, quality of being true," from triewe, treowe "faithful" (see true), with Proto-Germanic abstract noun suffix *-itho (see -th (2)).
Meaning "accuracy, correctness" is from 1560s. Unlike lie (v.), there is no primary verb in English or most other IE languages for "speak the truth." Noun sense of "something that is true" is first recorded mid-14c.
Truth squad in U.S. political sense first attested 1952. Truthiness "act or quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than those known to be true," catch word popularized in this sense by U.S. comedian Stephen Colbert, declared by American Dialect Society to be "2005 Word of the Year."
Example Sentences fortruth
Listen to the voice that tries to win you back to innocence and truth!
"In truth, my father, I wished to avoid the pain of parting," rejoined Philæmon.
The testimony of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Plato, confirmed the truth of his words.
But I got him too straight—let a drunken man alone for telling the truth when he's got it in him.
In truth, it's amazing to take count of the Western men among us in all the professions.
That's all gossip, you know; not a word of truth in it, and it's been very annoying to us both.
It was generally considered impromptu, but was, in truth, as stereotyped as the other.
I was, in truth, and not more so than deeply mortified and humbled.
I should judge from what I saw of the truth of his communications.
The call of one blood to another, and he realized the truth of what Allister said.