Noun

The state or quality of being serious.

*, chapter=16

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness . But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness . ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}

* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]

Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.

Noun

(order of senses) (en-noun)

The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

(label) Faithfulness, fidelity.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth .

(label) A pledge of loyalty or faith.

True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Magician’s brain , passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.}}

Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31, magazine=(American Scientist), title= How to Be Manipulative

, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}

Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.

* John Mortimer (1656?-1736)

Ploughs, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.

That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.

* 1820 , (John Keats), (Ode on a Grecian Urn)

Beauty is truth', ' truth beauty, - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

(label) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.

* 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Topness. (See also truth quark.)