Synonyms of verity

verity

noun

ˈver-ə-tē 

1

as in truth

agreement with fact or reality

the local tourist bureau is less concerned with the verity of the legend than the fact that it attracts visitors to the area

Synonyms & Similar Words

• truth
• accuracy
• authenticity
• truthfulness
• facticity
• trueness
• reliability
• credibility
• sooth
• factuality
• correctness
• veracity
• trustworthiness
• accurateness
• dependability
• actuality
• honesty
• trustability
• trustiness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• falsity
• untruth
• falseness
• fiction
• fallacy
• lie
• falsehood
• erroneousness
• inaccuracy
• half-truth
• fallaciousness
• lying
• imprecision
• incorrectness
• deceit
• inexactness
• dishonesty
• equivocation
• inexactitude
• prevarication
• untruthfulness
• mendacity
• impreciseness
• mendaciousness

2

as in integrity

devotion to telling the truth

no one is questioning your verity—just your memory of events that happened long ago

Synonyms & Similar Words

• integrity
• honesty
• truthfulness
• sincerity
• reliability
• veracity
• authenticity
• credibility
• reliableness
• truth
• probity
• accuracy
• trustworthiness
• frankness
• dependability
• righteousness
• good faith
• objectivity
• scrupulousness
• rectitude
• incorruptibility
• uprightness
• straightforwardness
• ingenuousness
• artlessness
• honorableness
• forthrightness
• candor
• guilelessness
• correctness
• genuineness
• scrupulosity
• honor
• right-mindedness
• candidness
• trustability
• trustiness
• plainspokenness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lying
• deceit
• dishonesty
• deception
• untruthfulness
• duplicity
• falsity
• hypocrisy
• mendacity
• falseness
• deceitfulness
• dissimulation
• insincerity
• artifice
• smoothness
• dissembling
• fakery
• cozenage
• crookedness
• cunning
• trickery
• mendaciousness
• perfidy
• slipperiness
• dupery
• double-dealing
• insidiousness
• guile
• furtiveness
• craftiness
• wiliness
• slyness
• underhandedness
• unscrupulousness
• indirection
• beguilement
• slickness
• equivocation
• prevarication
• cunningness
• treacherousness
• oiliness
• exaggeration
• inaccuracy
• two-facedness
• fraudulentness

Examples of verity in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Stalin is there too, wearing an expression that could only be described as stony and positioned, with due regard for the historical verities, within a dagger's throw of Vladimir Ilyich’s back. —Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023

Family was not the only eternal verity to appear. —New York Times, 17 Mar. 2021

Among them is one verity that sets the company’s surreptitious nature at the center of its culture. —John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 3 Aug. 2022

The space, unencumbered by outside (read: white) expectations that can often influence the verity of the work, allows filmmakers to share their projects with the world exactly as they were meant to be shared. —Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2022