verity

nouns

conformity to reality or actuality
"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"
an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth
is a type of (narrower)
a fact that has been verified
"at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is that he didn't want to do it"