veridical

English

WOTD – 14 April 2016

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈɹɪdɪkəl/

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Adjective

veridical (comparative more veridical, superlative most veridical)

1. True.

   Synonyms: veracious, veridicous (rare)

   Antonyms: false, falsidical

2. Pertaining to an experience, perception, or interpretation that accurately represents reality.

   Antonyms: falsidical; delusory, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, unsubstantiated

   Few believe that all claimed religious experiences are veridical.

   • 1995, Herbert Simon, “Guest Editorial”, in Public Administration Review, volume 55, number 5, page 404:

     There was great need for empirical research that would build a more veridical description of organizations and management.

   • 2014, Berit Brogaard, Does Perception Have Content?, page 112:

     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.

Derived terms

• veridicality

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weh₁- (0 c, 22 e)

Translations

true

• Bulgarian: верен (bg) (veren), правдив (bg) (pravdiv)
• Finnish: totuudenmukainen (fi), tosi (fi)
• Spanish: verídico (es), veraz (es), auténtico (es)

pertaining to reality

• Finnish: totuudenmukainen (fi)

See also

• Thesaurus:truth

Anagrams

• larvicide