truthiness
noun/ˈtɹuːθinəs/UK
Etymology
From truthy + -ness. Modern sense coined by American comedian and writer Stephen Colbert in October 17, 2005 on his show The Colbert Report.
Definitions
Truthfulness.
Superficial or asserted truthfulness, without recourse to evidence.
- 'Cause you're looking at a straight-shooter, America. I tell it like it is. I calls 'em like I sees 'em. I will speak to you in plain simple English. And that brings us to tonight's word: truthiness.
- Even in the halls of Congress, economic arguments against immigration are losing their aura of truthiness, so pro-enforcement types are focusing on national security.
- Like the contemporary urban myth, tales of stomach frogs and "bosom serpents" persisted because they have truthiness.
The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
- Usually, when you are receiving a Boolean value, you are most interested in checking its truthiness rather than its type.
The neighborhood
- neighboruntruthiness
- neighboralternative fact
- neighborcognitive dissonance
- neighborcognitive relativism
- neighborring of truth
- neighborwikiality
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for truthiness. 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