different between truth vs nonfiction

English

Alternative forms

• trewth (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English tr?owþ, tr?ewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþ? (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *dr?- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true +? -th. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr??th, IPA^(key): /t?u??/
• Rhymes: -u??

Noun

truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)

1. True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
2. Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
3. The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

4. (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
   • 1797-1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

     Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth.

5. (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
6. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.

   • Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.

   • 1840, Joseph Whitworth, "A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes":

     The process of grinding is, in fact, regarded as indispensable wherever truth is required, yet that of scraping is calculated to produce a higher degree of truth than has ever been attained by grinding.

7. That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
8. (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
9. (physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:truth

Antonyms

• falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, drivel, untruth, half-truth

Derived terms

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Translations

Verb

truth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
   • c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble

     Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.

2. To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
3. (nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.
   • 1966, Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"

     You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'

See also

• truth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• truth at OneLook Dictionary Search
• truth in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• truth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Hurtt

English

Alternative forms

• non-fiction

Etymology

non- +? fiction

Noun

nonfiction (countable and uncountable, plural nonfictions)

1. Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.

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