It's the Word of the Day for December 19th.

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Today's word is Veracity, spelled V-E-R-A-C-I-T-Y.

Veracity is a noun.

It's a formal word that can refer to truth or accuracy

or to the quality of being truthful or honest.

Here's the word used in a sentence from the Hamilton Spectator by Laura Ewan.

Raise your hand if you've been questioning the veracity of real events, news stories, and images

posted on social media lately. It used to be we'd have to tiptoe around a minefield of

hoaxes only once a year on April 1st. But thanks to the proliferation of misinformation

spawned by artificial intelligence, every day on the internet is an exercise in judgment and media

literacy. The word veracity has been in use since the early 17th century, and we can honestly tell

you that it comes from the Latin adjective Verax, meaning truthful, which in turn comes from

the earlier Verus, meaning true.

Verus also gives us the words verity, meaning the quality of being true, verify, meaning to establish the truth of, and verisimilitude, meaning the appearance of truth, among other words.

In addition, verax is the root of the word voraciousness, a somewhat rarer synonym and cousin of the word veracity.

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