Trueness

true  (tr)

adj. tru·er, tru·est

1.

a. Consistent with fact or reality; not false or erroneous. See Synonyms at real¹. See Usage Note at fact.

b. Truthful.

2. Real; genuine. See Synonyms at authentic.

3. Reliable; accurate: a true prophecy.

4. Faithful, as to a friend, vow, or cause; loyal. See Synonyms at faithful.

5. Sincerely felt or expressed; unfeigned: true grief.

6. Fundamental; essential: his true motive.

7. Rightful; legitimate: the true heir.

8. Exactly conforming to a rule, standard, or pattern: trying to sing true B.

9. Accurately shaped or fitted: a true wheel.

10. Accurately placed, delivered, or thrown.

11. Quick and exact in sensing and responding.

12. Determined with reference to the earth's axis, not the magnetic poles: true north.

13. Conforming to the definitive criteria of a natural group; typical: The horseshoe crab is not a true crab.

14. Narrowly particularized; highly specific: spoke of probity in the truest sense of the word.

15. Computer Science Indicating one of two possible values taken by a variable in Boolean logic or a binary device.

adv.

1. In accord with reality, fact, or truthfulness.

2. Unswervingly; exactly: The archer aimed true.

3. So as to conform to a type, standard, or pattern.

tr.v. trued, tru·ing or true·ing, trues

To position (something) so as to make it balanced, level, or square: trued up the long planks.

n.

1. Truth or reality. Used with the.

2. Proper alignment or adjustment: out of true.

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[Middle English trewe, from Old English trowe, firm, trustworthy; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]

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trueness n.

Word History: The words true and tree are joined at the root, etymologically speaking. In Old English, the words looked and sounded much more alike than they do now: "tree" was trow and "true" was trowe. The first of these comes from the Germanic noun *trewam; the second, from the adjective *treuwaz. Both these Germanic words ultimately go back to an Indo-European root *deru- or *dreu-, appearing in derivatives referring to wood and, by extension, firmness. Truth may be thought of as something firm; so too can certain bonds between people, like trust, another derivative of the same root. A slightly different form of the root, *dru-, appears in the word druid, a type of ancient Celtic priest; his name is etymologically *dru-wid-, or "strong seer."

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Trueness/Falseness 

1. Deceptive as a cat’s fur —Margaret Atwood
2. Deceptive as a Venus flytrap —Vivian Raynor, New York Times, February 27, 1987

   Ms. Raynor’s simile refers to the fleeting and misleading resemblance of one artist’s work to another’s.

3. Deceptive as new paint on a second-hand car —Herbert V. Prochnow
4. False as a lead coin —George Garrett
5. Falser than a weeping crocodile —John Dryden
6. Falser than malice in the mouth of envy —Mary Pin
7. Good and true as morning —Babs H. Deal
8. Right as rain —William Raymond

   An older, less commonly used version from Shakespeare’s Richard III: “Right as snow in harvest.”

9. Ring as true as chapel bells on a windless morning —Anon
10. Ring true, like good china —Sylvia Plath
11. True as life itself —Louis Bromfield
12. True as the dial to the sun —Barton Booth
13. (I found him large as life and) true as the needle to the pole —Henry James
14. True as the sky is blue —James Reiss
15. True as truth —Louis Bromfield
16. The true is stripped from the false like bone from meat —George Garrett

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	trueness - 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" the true, verity, truth actuality - the state of actually existing objectively; "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality"
	2.	trueness - the quality of being loyal           loyalty faithfulness, fidelity - the quality of being faithful staunchness, steadfastness - loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty fealty, allegiance - the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) nationalism, patriotism - love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it; "they rode the same wave of popular patriotism"; "British nationalism was in the air and patriotic sentiments ran high" regionalism - loyalty to the interests of a particular region
	3.	trueness - exactness of adjustment; "I marveled at the trueness of his aim" exactitude, exactness - the quality of being exact; "he demanded exactness in all details"; "a man of great exactitude"