Thursday, May 21, 2015

Word of the Day

veridical
\vuh-RID-i-kuhl\
adjective
1. truthful; veracious.
2. corresponding to facts; not illusory; real; actual; genuine.

Quotes
To answer that question, consider all those worlds in which Macbeth's current visual state is veridical.
-- Gregory Currie, The Nature of Fiction, 1990

Origin
Veridical comes from the Latin word vēridicus which means "true speaking."

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