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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of verity

But the passing verities never throw out of style. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2026

History is more about understanding change than finding eternal verities. — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026

But the intellectual self-questioning and anguished artistic experimentation that began in the early twentieth century after the annihilation of Europe’s old verities did not find fertile ground in the United States, either before the war or after it. — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025

This was one of those personal truths that after voicing it to someone else solidifies its verity — and all in the name of Los Angeles. — Hannah Benson, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025