verity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun conformity to reality or actuality
    trueness; the true; truth.
    • they debated the truth of the proposition
    • the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat
    • he was famous for the truth of his portraits
    • he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities
  2. noun an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth

WordNet

Ver"i*ty noun
Etymology
F. vérité, L. veritas, fr. verus true. See Very.
Wordforms
plural Verities
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality. "The verity of certain words." Shak.
    It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can govern while he is despised. South.
  2. That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.
    Mark what I say, which you shall find By every syllable a faithful verity. Shak.

Webster 1913