VERACITY

PRONUNCIATION: (vuh-RAS-i-tee)

MEANING: noun:
1. Truthfulness or accuracy.
2. Something true; a truth.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin verax (truthful), from verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1614.
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TERACITY - the number of trilions comprising something

FERACITY - wildness (a multilayered portmanteau of feral and voracity and ferocity)

VERACIFY - to investigate something and establish that it is true and accurate