VERITY

PRONUNCIATION: (VER-i-tee)

MEANING: noun:
1. The quality of being true.
2. Something that is true: a universally accepted truth.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin veritas (truth), from verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1422.
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VERSITY - rhymingness

OVERITY - the truthiness of an Irishman's story

VEXITY - the index of refraction of a magnifying lens; 2) the degree of irritation produced by such distortion