different between verification vs veracity

English

Etymology

From Middle French vérification, from Medieval Latin verificatio

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

verification (countable and uncountable, plural verifications)

1. The act of verifying.
2. The state of being verified.
3. Confirmation; authentication.

   The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.

4. (law) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence.
5. (mathematics) The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.

Derived terms

• verification principle

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See also

• Formal verification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle French véracité, from Old French veracitie, from Medieval Latin v?r?cit?s (“truthfulness”), from Latin v?r?x (“truthful, speaking truth”), from v?rus (“true, real”). See very.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v???æ.s?.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /v???æ.s?.ti/

Noun

veracity (countable and uncountable, plural veracities)

1. (uncountable, of a person) The quality of speaking or stating the truth; truthfulness.
2. (countable) Something that is true; a truthful statement; a truth.
3. (uncountable) Agreement with the facts; accordance with the truth; accuracy or precision.
4. Act of being exact and accurate.
5. Correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:veracity

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Further reading

• veracity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• veracity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.