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truthy

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹuːθi/

The English word “truthy” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Faithful; true.
  2. Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts.
  3. Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.

Etymology

From truth + -y. In colloquial sense, back-formation from truthiness.

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