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Trueness

Trueness \True"ness\, n. The quality of being true; reality; genuineness; faithfulness; sincerity; exactness; truth.

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trueness

n. 1 The characteristic of being true. 2 loyalty; faithfulness; constancy.

WordNet
trueness

n. exactness of adjustment; "I marveled at the trueness of his aim"

Usage examples of "trueness".

Suddenly the Nowness and Reality of hunger, thirst, and weariness are complicated with a thousand little schemes and desires and the trueness of existence is lost in the dreams of wish-fulfillment.

You can see the trueness of a plumb line as he called for moral standards.

He held an end of the steel tape for his father for a while, was sternly forbidden to carry hundred-pound bags of cement to the stock pile near the mixers, and finally settled down at the top of a light ladder checking with a spirit level the trueness of each section of form before its braces were finally set.

Feeling pleased with the trueness of her aim, Yafatah reloaded her akatikki.

He started examining the swords one at a time, testing them for balance and trueness, bending them to check the temper of the metal, examining the hilts and guards for sound welding.

I purchase many from contacts in your unisphere, but none are from secure stores, none are as complete as those you bring for me, none have the richness of human existence, the trueness that I cherish.

When she had been popping that little gun at me, perhaps she had still been one step removed from the trueness of it, seeing herself as a TV second lead making up the script as she went along, seeing both me and herself as symbol figures in one of the dramas that would always end with everybody sitting around, having coffee before the next take.

Who bath known her like among women for trueness and highness of heart?

While her words invite a comment, their tone is perfunctory and vaguely threatening, as if discussing the trueness of notes were a subject better not mentioned at table.

She gazed into the pool, at her own shimmering paleness reflected beside the cublings frightened gray-and-white, then knelt and let the strength of this place seep through her, the immensity of it, the trueness, until she was as still within as the surrounding stone.