Definitions
1. The state or charater of being true as respecting being, knowledge, or speech.
Specifically:
- Conformity to fact or reality, past present, or future.
- Conformity to rule, standard, model, patterrn, or ideal.
- Conformity to the requirements of one's being or nature;
- steadfastness;
sincerity
Truth has been distinguished as
- Truth of being, transcendental, or metaphysical truth, that truth by which a thing is what it is, and has not merely the appearance but the reality of being;
- Truth of knowledge, the conformity of knowledge with the reality known, and
- Truth of sign, the conformity of the sign (as the word in speech) to the thing signified.
It has also been distinguished as
- scientific truth, consisting in the conformity of thoughts to things.
- moral truth, consisting in the correspondance by the words with thoughts; and
- logical truth, consisting in the coherency and self-consistency of the thoughts thenselves.
2. That which is true;
A statement or belief which represents or conforms to reality;
A law or principle established by correct reasoning;
3. A fact as the object of correct belief;
that which is or may be literally the object of knowledge;
reality.
4. A tendency or disposition to speak or tell only what is true;
veracity.
5. The quality of being true or faithful, as to duty, trust, or promise;
fidelity;
constancy.
6. In the fine arts, faithful to the facts of nature, history, or life;
in a high sense, fidelity to the main features or spirit of these;
in a sow sense, undiscriminating realism.
7. [archaic] Right, according to divine law;
as, one should not only believe but do the truth.
3 John 1:4
8. Troth;
pledge