verity

Noun

• an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  truth , the true , trueness
• Antonyms: 
  falsity , falseness