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 The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts.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.)

Noun

(en noun)

Mental acceptance of a claim as likely true.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-12-06, author=(George Monbiot)

, volume=189, issue=26, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Why I'm eating my words on veganism – again , passage=The belief that there is no conflict between [livestock] farming and arable production also seems to be unfounded: by preventing the growth of trees and other deep vegetation in the hills and by compacting the soil, grazing animals cause a cycle of flash floods and drought, sporadically drowning good land downstream and reducing the supply of irrigation water.}}

Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.

(countable) Something believed.

(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.

(uncountable) Religious faith.

(in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.