- truth, the true, verity - conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"
--1 is a kind of actuality
- verity - an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth
--2 is a kind of truth