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facthood

noun

Etymology

From fact + -hood.

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁-✻
  2. derived from factum
  3. derived from fact
  4. suffixed as facthood — “fact + hood”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being factual

    The quality of being factual; factuality.

    • Once we have captured its impact within our words and feelings, these facts may not differ in their "facthood" from other, discussable facts.
    • The popular press is awash in facthoods. Celebrity sleaze, even of a literary bent, is apparently more interesting and saleable than accomplishment.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for facthood. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA