truthiness
Meaning
- (archaic, rare, uncountable) Truthfulness.
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Superficial or asserted truthfulness, without recourse to evidence.
- (uncountable) The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
Translations
veracitat
Aufrichtigkeit
αλήθεια
éracité fausse vérité
veracità
eerlijkheidPronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtɹuːθinəs/
Etymology
From truthy + -ness. Modern sense coined by American comedian Stephen Colbert 17 October 2005 on his show The Colbert Report.
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