English-Finnish translations for truth

• totuus
  ja vain siksi, että se on helpompaa kuin totuus, And just because it's easier than the truth,
  Ei ole muuta totuutta kuin koko totuus. There is no truth except the whole truth.
  Meidän on kohdattava totuus, ja totuus on, että olemme kasvaneet erilleen. We have to face up to the truth. The truth is that we have grown apart.
• omistautuminen
• todenmukaisuus
• totuudenmukaisuus
  Nyt kaikki on kiinni Mauritanian viranomaisista; niiden on todistettava liberaalilla asenteella julistustensa totuudenmukaisuus tässä kohdin. It is now up to the Mauritanian authorities to demonstrate, through a liberal attitude, the truthfulness of their statements on this last point.

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