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Accuracy vs Verity - What's the difference?

accuracy | verity |

As a noun accuracy

is the state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness.

As a proper noun verity is

derived from the latin for truth; one of the puritan virtue names.

accuracy

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(accuracies)
  • The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness
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  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy? ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.
  • Synonyms

    * correctness * truthfulness

    Antonyms

    * inaccuracy

    See also

    * precision * integrity * exactness * fidelity

    verity

    English

    Noun

    (verities)
  • (archaic) Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.
  • * 1602 : , act V scene 2
  • [...] but in the verity of extolment
    I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion
    of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of
    him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would
    trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.3:
  • For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities .
  • A true statement; an established doctrine.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:
  • Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.