Truth vs. Opinion

True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

Example: ‘The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.’;

Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.

Example: ‘There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.’;

The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

Example: ‘Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.’;

(archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.

(obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.

Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.

That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.

Example: ‘The truth is what is.’; ‘Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.’;

(countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.

Example: ‘Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.’;

Topness. (See also truth quark.)

To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.

To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.

To tell the truth.

The quality or being true; as: - (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.

Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.

Example: ‘Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.’;

That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.

Example: ‘Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor.’; ‘I long to know the truth here of at large.’; ‘The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.’;

Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.

Example: ‘Alas! they had been friends in youth,But whispering tongues can poison truth.’;

A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.

Example: ‘Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth.’;

The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.

Example: ‘If this will not suffice, it must appearThat malice bears down truth.’;

Righteousness; true religion.

Example: ‘Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.’; ‘Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.’; ‘He that doeth truth cometh to the light.’;

To assert as true; to declare.

Example: ‘Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.’;

a fact that has been verified;

Example: ‘at last he knew the truth’; ‘the truth is the he didn't want to do it’;

conformity to reality or actuality;

Example: ‘they debated the truth of the proposition’; ‘the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat’; ‘he was famous for the truth of his portraits’; ‘he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities’;

a true statement;

Example: ‘he told the truth’; ‘he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it’;

the quality of nearness to the truth or the true value;

Example: ‘he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass’; ‘the lawyer questioned the truth of my account’;

United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)

Truth is the property of being in accord with fact or reality. In everyday language, truth is typically ascribed to things that aim to represent reality or otherwise correspond to it, such as beliefs, propositions, and declarative sentences.Truth is usually held to be the opposite of falsehood.

A subjective belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed about a topic, issue, person or thing.

Example: ‘I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.’; ‘In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.’; ‘Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.’;

The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

(obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

(obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.

(European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible

To have or express as an opinion.

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action.

Example: ‘Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persuasion than to another, yet not without a mixture of incertainty or doubting.’; ‘I can not put off my opinion so easily.’;

The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

Example: ‘I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.’; ‘Friendship . . . gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.’; ‘However, I have no opinion of those things.’;

Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

Example: ‘Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion.’; ‘This gained Agricola much opinion, who . . . had made such early progress into laborious . . . enterprises.’;

Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.

To opine.

a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty;

Example: ‘my opinion differs from yours’; ‘what are your thoughts on Haiti?’;

a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people;

Example: ‘he asked for a poll of public opinion’;

a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof;

Example: ‘his opinions appeared frequently on the editorial page’;

the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision;

Example: ‘opinions are usually written by a single judge’;

the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)

a vague idea in which some confidence is placed;

Example: ‘his impression of her was favorable’; ‘what are your feelings about the crisis?’; ‘it strengthened my belief in his sincerity’; ‘I had a feeling that she was lying’;

An opinion is a judgement, viewpoint, or statement that is not conclusive, rather than facts, which are true statements.