(noun) the quality or state of being true or real / (noun) something (as a statement) that is true / (noun) a fundamental and inevitably true value / (noun) the quality or state of being truthful or honest
Vonnegut seemed to have been in a place where all the comforting verities had been stripped away
Vonnegut seemed to have been in a place where all the comforting verities had been stripped away