Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun verity

2 senses of verity

Sense 1
truth, the true, verity, trueness -- (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")
       => actuality -- (the state of actually existing objectively; "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality")

Sense 2
verity -- (an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth)
       => truth -- (a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is that he didn't want to do it")