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Veridical vs Unerring - What's the difference?

veridical | unerring |

As adjectives the difference between veridical and unerring

is that veridical is true while unerring is not missing the target.

veridical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • True.
  • Pertaining to an experience, perception, or interpretation that accurately represents reality; as opposed to imaginative, unsubstantiated, illusory, or delusory.
  • Few believe that all claimed religious experiences are veridical .
  • * 1995 , , "Guest Editorial", Public Administration Review , vol. 55, no. 5, p. 404:
  • There was great need for empirical research that would build a more veridical description of organizations and management.

    Antonyms

    * falsidical * imaginative

    Derived terms

    * veridicality

    Anagrams

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    unerring

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not missing the target.
  • consistently accurate.
  • * 1717:' Hissing in air the '''unerring weapon flew. -- (John Dryden)'s 1697–1700 translation of "The Story of Meleager and Atalanta", in Ovid's ''Metamorphoses (tr. Garth, Dryden, et al.), book VIII, pub. 1717
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter III , passage=One learns, as one goes through life, to spot goofiness in the other sex with an unerring eye [...]}}
  • * 2007 , , p. 630-1,
  • As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.