truthiness

Noun

Meaning

(rare, archaic) Truthfulness. [from 19th c.]

(US, colloquial) Superficial or asserted truthfulness, without recourse to evidence. [from 21st c.]
Synonyms: truthlikeness, verisimilitude

(programming) The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a Boolean context.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Related terms

untruthiness

Examples

Truthiness is tearing apart our country. Stephen Colbert

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness. Jonathan Haidt

A good reminder to apply some truthiness to our marketing. Source: Internet

Finding bits that assume truthiness is quite simple, because Roslyn doesn’t just blow up on an invalid program; it does it’s best to give you everything that can be gleaned from malformed code, just like Visual Studio. Source: Internet

In the republican world "truthiness" (I think that's Colbert's word) is just not in vogue. Source: Internet

On that date, Stephen Colbert coined the word “truthiness”—essentially, that if you believe what you’re saying, it must be true. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

truthfully conveyed truthfulness truthify truthism truthless truthlessly