(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
his rhetorical claim to be 'representative' of humankind, to speak with the voice of the people and utter eternal verities
Vonnegut seemed to have been in a place where all the comforting verities had been stripped away