Dictionary

inverity

Noun

inverity (plural inverities)

(rare) Untruth, falsehood.
- 1906, Alexander Smith, Introduction to General Inorganic Chemistry, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ttFIAAAAIAAJ&q=%22inverity%22+-%22business+-like|minded|oriented|focused|centric|processed|integrated%22&dq=%22inverity%22+-%22business+-like|minded|oriented|focused|centric|processed|integrated%22&hl=en&ei=bsOFTar1NJCdcdPm6ZQD&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg page 141],
  It is a structure existing in the imagination. It cannot exist anywhere else, because it includes novelties like perfectly elastic bodies in perpetual motion. In making it, we are well aware of the inverity of some of its elements.
- 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fZvuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22inverities%22+-%22business+-like|minded|oriented|focused|centric|processed|integrated%22&dq=%22inverities%22+-%22business+-like|minded|oriented|focused|centric|processed|integrated%22&hl=en&ei=ed2FTbiOG9Occd-X7J4D&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA page 147],
  God knows, we have been offered enough minacious parables over the centuries to discourage both of these stubborn delusions — from The Iliad and Oedipus Rex to The Picture of Dorian Gray and "Richard Cory" — but still they survive, eternal inverities.

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