truthiness
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹuːθinəs/
The English word “truthiness” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- Truthfulness.
- Superficial or asserted truthfulness, without recourse to evidence.
- The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
Etymology
From truthy + -ness. Modern sense coined by American comedian and writer Stephen Colbert in October 17, 2005 on his show The Colbert Report.
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