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Alētheia

Truth: literally unconcealment, the disclosure of what is.

Also: aletheia

Greek philosophy and Neoplatonism

Alētheia is the Greek word for truth, formed from a privative and a root meaning to escape notice: truth as unhiddenness. Heidegger made much of the etymology, reading truth as the disclosure of being. For Plato truth belongs above all to the Forms.