| Main Entry: | genuineness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authenticity |
Synonyms: |
authority, cogency, effectiveness, efficacy, force, foundation, gravity, grounds, legality, legitimacy, persuasiveness, point, potency, power, punch, realness, right, soundness, strength, substance, truthfulness, validity, validness, weight |
| Main Entry: | acid test |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | critical test |
Synonyms: |
analysis, conclusive test, crucial test, decisive test, definitive test, experiment, genuineness, proof, proving ground, substantiation, sure test, test of value, trial, verification |
| Main Entry: | fact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verifiable truth; reality |
Synonyms: |
actuality, appearance, authenticity, basis, bottom line, brass tacks, case, certainty, certitude, concrete happening, dope*, evidence, experience, genuineness, gospel, gospel truth, how it is, intelligence, law, like it is, matter*, naked truth, palpability, permanence, scene, scripture, solidity, stability, substantiality, verity, what's what |
Antonyms: |
fabrication, lie |
| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truthfulness, candidness |
Synonyms: |
bluntness, candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, evenhandedness, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, goodness, honor, impeccability, incorruptibility, integrity, justness, loyalty, morality, openness, outspokenness, plainness, principle, probity, rectitude, reputability, responsibility, right, scrupulousness, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness, uprightness, veracity, virtue |
Antonyms: |
artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, fraudulence, lying, treachery |
| Main Entry: | reality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts of existence |
Synonyms: |
absoluteness, actuality, authenticity, being, bottom line, brass tacks, certainty, concreteness, corporeality, deed, entity, existence, genuineness, how things are, like it is, materiality, matter, name of the game, nuts and bolts, object, palpability, perceptibility, phenomenon, presence, real world, realism, realness, sensibility, solidity, substance, substantiality, substantive, tangibility, truth, validity, verisimilitude, verity, way of it, what's what |
Antonyms: |
belief, fantasy, hypothesis, imagination, theory |
| Main Entry: | sincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | straightforwardness, honesty |
Synonyms: |
artlessness, bona fides, candor, earnestness, frankness, genuineness, good faith, goodwill, guilelessness, heart, honor, impartiality, innocence, justice, openness, probity, reliability, seriousness, sincereness, singleness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, veracity, wholeheartedness |
Antonyms: |
dishonesty, insincerity, untrustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reality, validity |
Synonyms: |
accuracy, actuality, authenticity, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactitude, exactness, fact, facts, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, gospel truth, gospel, honest truth, infallibility, inside track, legitimacy, maxim, naked truth, nitty-gritty, perfection, picture, plain talk, precision, principle, rectitude, rightness, scoop, score, trueness, truism, truthfulness, unvarnished truth, veracity, verisimilitude, verity, whole story |
Antonyms: |
falsehood, invention, untruth |
| Main Entry: | veracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truth |
Synonyms: |
accuracy, actuality, authenticity, candor, correctness, credibility, exactitude, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, gospel, honest-to-god truth, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, like it is, openness, precision, probity, real McCoy, reality, rectitude, rightness, sincerity, straight stuff, trueness, truism, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word* |
Antonyms: |
falsehood, falsity |
| Main Entry: | verisimilitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authenticity |
Synonyms: |
color, credibility, genuineness, likeliness, likeness, plausibility, realism, resemblance, semblance, show, similarity, virtual reality |
Antonyms: |
falseness, impossibility |
| Main Entry: | truthfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honesty |
Synonyms: |
accuracy, frankness, genuineness, integrity, probity, sincerity, veracity, verity |
Antonyms: |
deceitfulness, dishonesty, lying, mendacity, untruthfulness |