The quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true.
‘Basically, we're looking at a case of representativeness - by analogy with truthiness - versus representation.’
‘The buzzword of the decade is Stephen Colbert's " truthiness ".’
‘Yet the insights of science are often counterintuitive, frequently lacking "truthiness."’
‘Ideology, or to use Stephen Colbert's term, "truthiness" is ascendant.’
‘Problem is, every time someone brings up those inconvenient facts, you respond with more truthiness.’
‘Doesn't surprise me one bit the "New York Times" hasn't heard of truthiness.’
‘To use the memorable phrase coined by comedian Stephen Colbert, Web 2.0 sites can all too easily supply "truthiness" rather than truth.’
‘But nearly all are freighted with a lack of truthiness.’
‘It's not as great a made-up word as "truthiness," but I like it.’
‘For talk show hosts it's "truthiness" rather than truth that counts.’
‘She speaks truthiness to power and doesn't even know the difference.’
‘Congress routinely adopts policies that cater to special interests, which are then justified by the sort of smarmy, fact-free spin that the comedian Stephen Colbert has labeled "truthiness."’
‘They're rated for truthiness, and there are some fascinating stories.’
‘Jon Stewart is not alone in the truthiness business, as his pal Steven Colbert would put it.’
‘Ideology, or, to use Stephen Colberts term, truthiness, is ascendant, But the best antidote to that is critical reason, something Reedies have in abundance.’
‘Truthiness, recently earned the word of the year award from the American Dialect Society after being popularized by Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert.’
‘The truthiness hurts, doesn't it kids?’
‘The idea that everybody wears these pins is classic Stephen Colbertian "truthiness" at work.’
‘It's easy to see how Stanley accidentally substituted trustiness for truthiness, since it anticipates Colbert's blowhard assertion, "I don't trust books."’
‘So what about Alessandra Stanley's goof, replacing Stephen Colbert's sublimely silly truthiness with the pedestrian "trustiness"?’
Origin
Early 19th century (in the sense ‘truthfulness’): coined in the modern sense by the US humorist Stephen Colbert.
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