verity in WordNet English dictionary

1. conformity to reality or actuality
   "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"
   truth  the true  verity  trueness 
   
2. an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth
   verity