veridical

comparative more veridical · superlative most veridical

1. True.

   Synonyms: veracious, veridicous · Antonyms: false, falsidical

2. Pertaining to an experience, perception, or interpretation that accurately represents reality.

   Few believe that all claimed religious experiences are veridical.

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   There was great need for empirical research that would build a more veridical description of organizations and management.

   1995, Herbert Simon, “Guest Editorial”, in Public Administration Review, volume 55, number 5, page 404

   Searle himself notes that one way an experience might fail is for it to be a veridical hallucination: you might hallucinate a cat before you, and by accident there might be a cat before you.

   2014, Berit Brogaard, Does Perception Have Content?, page 112

   Antonyms: falsidical, delusory, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, unsubstantiated