English-Dutch translations for truth

• waarheid
  De enige waarheid is de hele waarheid. There is no truth except the whole truth.
  De enige echte waarheid is de hele waarheid. The whole is the only real truth.
  We willen de waarheid weten, niets meer dan de waarheid. We want to know the truth, nothing more than the truth.
• werkelijkheid
  Dat is gewoon de werkelijkheid.That is the plain truth of it.
  De werkelijkheid is echter anders. The truth is something different.
  Helaas staat dit ver van de werkelijkheid af. Sadly, this is far from the truth.
• echtheid
• eed
• eerlijkheid
  Bij communicatie horen echter ook eerlijkheid en duidelijkheid. However, communication also involves truth and clarity.
  Eerlijkheid: de waarheid zeggen, ook als dat niet zo prettig is. Honesty: telling the truth even when it is not comfortable to do so.
  Datzelfde lid had nota bene het lef om vandaag in dit Huis te spreken over waarheid en eerlijkheid. The same Member had the audacity to stand up in this House today and talk about truth and honesty.
• oprechtheid
  Ik wens u alle goeds, en hoop dat we ons bij het maken van beleid zullen laten leiden door oprechtheid en waarheid. I wish you every good fortune, and I hope that a spirit of honesty and truth will guide us in our policy-making.
  Shen Yun bevordert een filosofie van oprechtheid, tolerantie en compassie. Dus het is niet verrassend dat de Chinese regering en de Communistische Partij bang zijn voor deze conflicterende ideologie. I should also say that Shen Yun promotes the philosophy of truthfulness, tolerance and compassion so it is not surprising that the Chinese Government and Communist Party fear that contrary ideology.

Definition of truth

• True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality
• Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy
• The state or quality of being true to someone or something
• Faithfulness, fidelity
• A pledge of loyalty or faith
• That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality
• Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom
• Topness; the property of a truth quark
• To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully
• To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy
• To tell the truth

Examples

• The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on
• There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice
• Truth to ones own feelings is all-important in life
• The truth is what is
• Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth
• Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence

Related words

• half-truth
• truthful
• truthfully
• untruth
• truthing
• truthfulness
• untruthfulness
• untruthful
• truthiness