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Verity vs Perspective - What's the difference?

verity | perspective |

As a proper noun verity

is derived from the latin for truth; one of the puritan virtue names.

As a noun perspective is

a view, vista or outlook.

As an adjective perspective is

of, in or relating to perspective.

verity

English

Noun

(verities)
  • (archaic) Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth.
  • * 1602 : , act V scene 2
  • [...] but in the verity of extolment
    I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion
    of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of
    him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would
    trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.3:
  • For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities .
  • A true statement; an established doctrine.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:
  • Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.

    perspective

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A view, vista or outlook.
  • The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
  • The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
  • (figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
  • The ability to consider things in such relative perspective
  • A perspective glass.
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
  • A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
  • Derived terms

    * linear perspective * metaperspective * microperspective * put something into perspective

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, in or relating to perspective
  • a perspective drawing
  • (obsolete) providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical
  • (Francis Bacon)