VERITY

[noun] [formal] - truthfulness, or a belief, idea or principle that is generally accepted as being trueIn the film, he plays a spy whose mission is to confirm the verity of a secret military document. [U]The country has finally abandoned the outmoded verities (= beliefs or principles) of the past and adopted a more open outlook. [C]She has spent her life in a search for eternal/scientific/universal verities (= truth). [C]