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veracity

/vəˈræsɪti/

C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Medicine noun

The quality of being truthful and accurate in what is reported.

The clinician quietly questioned the veracity of the patient's account of alcohol intake.

Similar: truthfulness, honesty

Topic: Clinical consultation in Medical English

Law noun

Conformity to truth; habitual truthfulness.

The whole case hinged on the veracity of a single informant.

Similar: truthfulness, accuracy

Topic: Evidence & procedure in Legal English

Business noun

The degree to which data is accurate and trustworthy.

Big volumes were useless without veracity, and half the imported leads had fabricated phone numbers.

Similar: accuracy, truthfulness

Topic: Data & analytics in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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