adjective

• 1formal Truthful.

  as noun ‘Pilate's attitude to the veridical’

  More example sentences

  • ‘According to Buddhist prama tenets, there are only two valid and authoritative means of veridical cognition.’
  • ‘It is virtually impossible to find a veridical characterization of the secular left from anywhere on the right.’
  • ‘This system cannot distinguish veridical from false memories, organize the retrieval output, or guide a retrieval search.’
  • ‘We assume our senses are veridical (tell us the truth) out of pragmatism - if we thought they lied all the time we'd go mad.’
  • ‘With both sense experience and mystical experience contradictions between reports prevent us from taking all of them to be veridical.’
  • ‘I am willing to bet that any answer offered will be no more veridical than any offered before.’

  Synonyms

  reliable, dependable, trustworthy, authoritative, honest, faithful

  1. 1.1Coinciding with reality.
     ‘such memories are not necessarily veridical’
     More example sentences

     • ‘But there was no assumption that this was a veridical model of reality.’
     • ‘Less aggressive children, on the other hand, may have been more veridical in their self-descriptions.’
     • ‘This criterion presupposes that the protocol algorithm is veridical.’
     • ‘They could also be after-images, hypnagogic imagery, or memory images with subliminal material that was not veridical.’
     • ‘And this conflict does not disappear when we move from veridical perceptions of natural facts to veridical perceptions of social facts.’
     • ‘Searle's ontology contains, implicitly, a distinction between veridical and illusory we-intentions.’
     • ‘In fact, says Bayle, even granting that God is veridical, Descartes's proof of the external world itself is flawed.’
     • ‘In mediumistic communications it was not unusual to find veridical cases with no links between the medium and living persons.’
     • ‘His sense of self-preservation requires his conception to be veridical, and is threatened when it is disconfirmed.’
     • ‘Cases of veridical and non-veridical perception can involve the same perceptual state, the same sensation.’
     • ‘But with respect to conditions of satisfaction for veridical perceptions and true beliefs, it is the other way round.’