veridical

(-rĭd'ĭk)
adj.

1. Truthful; veracious: veridical testimony.
2. Coinciding with future events or apparently unknowable present realities: a veridical hallucination.

[From Latin vēridicus : vērus, true + dīcere, to say.]

veridicality ve·rid'i·cal'i·ty (-kăl'ĭ-tē) n.
veridically ve·rid'i·cal·ly adv.

(vuh-RID-i-kuhl)

adjective
1. Truthful.
2. Real; corresponding to facts; representing reality.

Etymology
From Latin veridicus, from verus (true) + dicere (to say)

Usage
"It's both surreal and veridical, whimsical and graphic, straightforward and sly." — Charlotte O'Sullivan; Up to No Good; The Independent on Sunday (London, UK); Sep 29, 2002.

"If split-brain patients are given such tests, the left hemisphere generates many false reports. But the right brain does not; it provides a much more veridical account." — Michael S. Gazzaniga and John W. Karapelou; The Split Brain Revisited; Scientific American (Washington, DC); Jul 1, 1998.

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adjective

1. Consistently telling the truth: truthful, veracious. See true/false.
2. Conforming to fact: accurate, correct, exact, faithful, precise, right, rigorous, true, veracious. See correct/incorrect, honest/dishonest, real/imaginary, true/false.

Truthful. A veridical perception is one that represents things as they are, contrasted with an illusory or even delusory one that does not.

truthful, veracious; genuine