Truth vs Objective - 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.
Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
Based on observed facts.
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(grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
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A material object that physically exists.
A goal that is striven for.
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(grammar) The objective case; a noun or pronoun in that case.
The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.
As verbs the difference between truth and objective
is that truth is (obsolete|transitive) to assert as true; to declare, to speak truthfully while objective is .As a noun truth
is the state or quality of being true to someone or something.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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John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
- 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
*objective
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(Objectivity)Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* Said of account, judgment, criteria, person, existence, or observation.Antonyms
* subjectiveDerived terms
* nonobjective * objective correlative * objectivityNoun
(en noun)- Objectives' are the stepping stones which guide you to achieving your goals. They must be verifiable in some way, whether that?s statistically – ‘the more I do this, the better I get at it? – or by some other achievable concept such as getting the job or relationship that you want. It?s crucial that your ' objectives lead you logically towards your goal and are quantifiable.