Today's word: Truth

Since it would take me many days and many, many posts to fully describe truth here is a collection of definitions and descriptions from various sources:

Wikipedia:

The word truth has a variety of meanings, from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular.^[1] The term has no single definition about which a majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree, and various theories and views of truth continue to be debated. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; what things are truthbearers capable of being true or false; how to define and identify truth; the roles that revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective, relative, objective, or absolute. This article introduces the various perspectives and claims, both today and throughout history.  

Dictionary.com:

 

truth

  [trooth]  Show IPA ,

Use truth in a Sentence

–noun, plural truths  [troothz, trooths]  Show IPA .

1.	the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.

2.	conformity with fact or reality; verity: the truth of a statement.

3.	a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like: mathematical truths.

4.	the state or character of being true.

5.	actuality or actual existence.

6.	an obvious or accepted fact; truism; platitude.

7.	honesty; integrity; truthfulness.

8.	(often initial capital letter) ideal or fundamental reality apart from and transcending perceived experience: the basic truths of life.

9.	agreement with a standard or original.

10.	accuracy, as of position or adjustment.

11.	Archaic. fidelity or constancy.

—Idiom

12.	in truth, in reality; in fact; actually: In truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire.

Origin: 
bef. 900; ME treuthe, OE trēowth (c. ON tryggth faith). See true, -th ¹ 

Related forms:

truthless, adjective

truth⋅less⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. fact. 2. veracity. 7. sincerity, candor, frankness. 10. precision, exactness.

Antonyms:
1. falsehood. 2, 4, 7. falsity.

In case anyone has abundant time on her hands:

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/