Definitions For Truthiness

Noun

TRUTHINESS (uncountable) (rare, archaic) truthfulness, truthfulness. from 19th c. (US, colloquial) Superficial or asserted truthfulness, without recourse to evidence. from 21st c. : Synonym: truthlikeness, verisimilitude (programming) The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a boolean context.

Related terms

untruthiness

Translations

Chinese: : Mandarin: 感实性 Dutch: waarheidigheid Esperanto: verumeco French: fausse vérité Russian: правдоподо́бность Swedish: sanningenhet

See also

alternative fact cognitive dissonance cognitive relativism appendix:american dialect society words of the year

Etymology

From truthy + ness. Modern sense ''.

Is Truthiness a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) NO
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
14

The word Truthiness is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends

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