truthiness
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- noun
- /ˈtruːθɪnəs/
- Literature
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aparente veracidad
- It's no great insight to point out we're stuck in an age of truthiness, where fact-checking has been relegated to a section in the paper.
- the word truthiness
Examples
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Then, they take these drugs and turn them over to marketing, to be sold with all the enthusiasm and truthiness of a late-night infomercial.
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It's like Stephen Colbert talking about 'truthiness.'
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An ability to make a choice about what we believe instead of just going with the comfortable and most apparent truthiness.
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I have to question my "truthiness" on the validity of this study.
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It's more the age of Truthiness, or the Age of Bellyfeel.
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As for truthfulness or truthiness, why is this truth ignored by Scientific American?
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Maybe Faux Noise needs a dose of truth applied, not truthiness.
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We see the symbols of a scientific paper... which give a false sense of "truthiness" to this scientifically meaningless exercise.
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The research finds that a statement in the presence of images or other additional information enhances people's feelings of truthiness, even when they don't provide any evidence the statement is true.
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In our discussions, we often encounter moments of truthiness, where emotions cloud our judgment rather than facts.
Synonyms
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How likely something is to be true
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How much something seems true or real to people
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The appearance of being true or real
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The appearance of being true when it is false
Appearing to be true or real but not always so
How likely something seems to be true
How believable and trustworthy something is
Antonyms
How Believable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Truthiness was coined by TV host Stephen Colbert from truth and -iness to mean 'the feeling of being true' rather than a proven fact. So it describes things that seem or feel true, even when they are not actually true.