In the Mahayana tenet systems, a fact about a phenomenon that veils or conceals a deeper true fact about the same phenomenon and which appears as true to a mind tainted with cognitive obscurations.
Tibetan: ཀུན་རྫོབ་བདེན་པ། kun-rdzob bden-pa
Sanskrit: saṃvṛtisatya
J. Hopkins: Conventional truth; Obscurational truth
Synonyms: Relative truth; Conventional truth; Apparent truth; Surface truth; Veiled truth
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