Truth vs Ethical - What's the difference?
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The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
(label) Faithfulness, fidelity.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
(label) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
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, title= Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
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Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
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That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
* 1820 , (John Keats), (Ode on a Grecian Urn)
(label) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
* 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice)
Topness. (See also truth quark.)
(obsolete) To assert as true; to declare, to speak truthfully.
(philosophy, not comparable) Of or relating to the study of ethics.
(not comparable) Of or relating to the accepted principles of right and wrong, especially those of some organization or profession.
(comparable) Morally approvable, when referring to an action that affects others; good.
(of a drug, not comparable) Only dispensed on the prescription of a physician.
As nouns the difference between truth and ethical
is that truth is the state or quality of being true to someone or something while ethical is an ethical drug.As a verb truth
is (obsolete|transitive) to assert as true; to declare, to speak truthfully.As an adjective ethical is
(philosophy|not comparable) of or relating to the study of ethics.truth
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Alternative forms
* trewth (obsolete)Noun
(order of senses) (en-noun)- Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth .
- The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
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- Ploughs, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.
- Beauty is truth', ' truth beauty, - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Synonyms
* SeeAntonyms
* falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, untruth, half-truthDerived terms
* half-truth * if truth be told * tell the truth * truthful * truthiness * truthless * truth or dare * truth serum * truthyVerb
(en verb)- Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. — Ford.
- 1966', ''You keep lying, when you oughta be '''truthin
' — Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
See also
* (wikipedia)Statistics
*ethical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The philosopher Kant is particularly known for his ethical writings.
- All employees must familiarize themselves with our ethical guidelines.
- We are trying to decide what the most ethical course of action would be.
- In most jurisdictions, morphine is classified as an ethical drug.