unverity
unverity noun: untruth; falsehood.
Noun
unverity (countable and uncountable, plural unverities)
- Untruth; falsehood.
- […] that some of the unverities in “Lavengro” and “The Romany Rye” are “probably due to forgetfulness,” the rest to “love of posing, but much more to an honest desire to produce an amusing and interesting book.”2019, Edward Thomas, George Borrow: The Man and His Books
- A value equal to 1 minus the truth value of a statement.
- All and only classically valid arguments are those which preserve verity in the following sense: there is no assignment of verities such that the unverity of the conclusion exceeds the sum of the unverities of the premises.2013, A. Bottani, Massimiliano Carrara, P. Giaretta, Individuals, Essence and Identity, page 311
Forms of unverity
| plural | unverities |
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Origin of unverity
From un- + verity.
Questions about unverity
- What does unverity mean?
- Unverity means untruth; falsehood.
- What part of speech is unverity?
- Unverity is a noun.
- What is the plural of unverity?
- The plural of unverity is unverities.
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