Veritable vs Veridical - What's the difference?
veritable | veridical |
True, real.
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True.
Pertaining to an experience, perception, or interpretation that accurately represents reality; as opposed to imaginative, unsubstantiated, illusory, or delusory.
* 1995 , , "Guest Editorial", Public Administration Review , vol. 55, no. 5, p. 404:
As adjectives the difference between veritable and veridical
is that veritable is veritable while veridical is true.veritable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Life in the Middle Ages was a colossal religious game. The
dominant value was salvation in a life hereafter. Emphasizing
that "to divorce medieval hysteria from its time and place is
not possible,"21 Gallinek observes:
It was the aim of man to leave all things worldly as far behind as
possible, and already during lifetime to approach the kingdom of
heaven. The aim was salvation. Salvation was the Christian master
motive.—The ideal man of the Middle Ages was free of all fear
because he was sure of salvation, certain of eternal bliss. He was
the saint, and the saint, not the knight nor the troubadour, is the
veritable ideal of the Middle Ages.22
- He is a veritable swine.
- A fair is a veritable smorgasbord. (From ).
Anagrams
* ----veridical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Few believe that all claimed religious experiences are veridical .
- There was great need for empirical research that would build a more veridical description of organizations and management.