Definitions for truthiness
truthi·ness

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1. truthinessnoun

   Truthfulness.

2. truthinessnoun

   The quality of seeming to be true, even if this contradicts evidence or rational thought

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1. Truthiness

   Truthiness is a quality characterizing a "truth" that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively "from the gut" or because it "feels right" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. American television comedian Stephen Colbert coined the word in this meaning as the subject of a segment called "The Wørd" during the pilot episode of his political satire program The Colbert Report on October 17, 2005. By using this as part of his routine, Colbert satirized the misuse of appeal to emotion and "gut feeling" as a rhetorical device in contemporaneous socio-political discourse. He particularly applied it to U.S. President George W. Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Colbert later ascribed truthiness to other institutions and organizations, including Wikipedia. Colbert has sometimes used a Dog Latin version of the term, "Veritasiness". For example, in Colbert's "Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando" the word "Veritasiness" can be seen on the banner above the eagle on the operation's seal. Truthiness, although a "stunt word", was named Word of the Year for 2005 by the American Dialect Society and for 2006 by Merriam-Webster. Linguist and OED consultant Benjamin Zimmer pointed out that the word truthiness already had a history in literature and appears in the Oxford English Dictionary, as a derivation of truthy, and The Century Dictionary, both of which indicate it as rare or dialectal, and to be defined more straightforwardly as "truthfulness, faithfulness". Responding to claims, Colbert explained the origin of his word as, "Truthiness is a word I pulled right out of my keister ...".

How to pronounce truthiness?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of truthiness in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of truthiness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of truthiness in a Sentence

1. Stephen Colbert ':

   The truthiness is all those incredible things that people say I did --- none of that was really me, you, the Nation, did all of that. I just got paid for it.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Truthiness
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=truthiness