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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

veridical en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /vəˈɹɪdɪkəl/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin veridicus (“truly said”), from verus (“true”) and dīcō (“to say”).

Meanings

  1. True.
  2. Pertaining to an experience, perception, or interpretation that accurately represents reality.
    • There was great need for empirical research that would build a more veridical description of organizations and management. 1995, Herbert Simon, “Guest Editorial”, in Public Administration Review, volume 55, number 5, page 404:
    • Few believe that all claimed religious experiences are veridical.
    • Searle himself notes that one way an experience might fail is for it to be a veridical hallucination: you might hallucinate a cat before you, and by accident there might be a cat before you. 2014, Berit Brogaard, Does Perception Have Content?, page 112:

Forms

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most veridical Degree=Sup lexicographic
more veridical Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

falsidical · falsidical · false · delusory · illusory · imaginative · unsubstantiated · imaginary

Deriveds

nonveridical · veridicality · unveridical · veridicalness · veridically

Relateds

truth

Synonyms

veridicous · veracious

Translations (11)

pl prawdziwy (pertaining to reality) · bg верен (true) · es auténtico (true) · fi totuudenmukainen (pertaining to reality) · bg правдив (true) · pl wiarygodny (true) · fi tosi (true) · pl prawdomówny (true) · es verídico (true) · es veraz (true) · fi totuudenmukainen (true)