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veridical
Word definitions for veridical in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 true. 2 Pertaining to an experience, perception, or interpretation that accurately represents reality; as opposed to imaginative, unsubstantiated, illusory, or delusory.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception"- F.A.Olafson [syn: real ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Veridical \Ve*rid"ic*al\, a. [L. veridicus; verus true + dicere to say, tell.] Truth-telling; truthful; veracious. [R.] --Carlyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"speaking truth," 1650s, from Latin veridicus "truth-telling, truthful," from verum "truth," neuter of verus "true" (see very ) + dic- , stem of dicere "to speak" (see diction ). Related: Veridically .
Usage examples of veridical.
Cass, I feel confident, is sufficiently detached and sane to realize that what is veridical for him may be sheer extravagance for others, who have no direct experience by which to judge his claims.
Apprehending an object and making the judgment that it really exists are inseparable only in the case of veridical perceptions.
I feel confident, is sufficiently detached and sane to realize that what is veridical for him may be sheer extravagance for others, who have no direct experience by which to judge his claims.
Sancho, I am comforted, and I believe you will keep it, because in fact, although a simpleton, you are a veridical man.
Time and again, Miss Climpson had listened while the apparatus of planes and controls, correspondences and veridical communications, astral bodies, auras and ectoplastic materialisations was displayed before her protesting intelligence.