Definition of: veracity

(və·ras′ə·tē) noun plural ·ties
1. The habitual regard for truth; truthfulness; honesty.
2. Agreement with truth; accuracy, or fact; trueness.
3. That which is true; truth. [<F véracité <L verax. See VERACIOUS.] Synonyms: candor, fact, frankness, honesty, ingenuousness, reality, truth, truthfulness, verity. Truth is primarily and verity is always a quality of thought or speech, especially or speech, as in exact conformity to fact. Veracity is properly a quality of a person, the habit of speaking and the disposition to speak the truth. Truthfulness is a quality that may inhere either in a person or in his statements or beliefs. Candor, frankness, honesty, and ingenuousness are closely allied with veracity, and fact, reality, and verity with truth, while truthfulness may accord with either. Truth in a secondary sense may be applied to intellectual action or moral character, in the former case becoming a close synonym of veracity: She knows him to be a man of truth. Antonyms: deceit, deception, delusion, duplicity, error, fabrication, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, fiction, guile, imposture, lie, untruth.