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truthiness 

The quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.

Origin: Stephen Colbert, "The Colbert Report," 2005

"And that brings us to tonight's word: truthiness.

"Now I'm sure some of the Word Police, the wordanistas over at Webster's, are gonna say, 'Hey, that's not a word.' Well, anybody who knows me knows that I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn't true, or what did or didn't happen. Who's Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal was finished in 1914? If I wanna say it happened in 1941, that's my right. I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart."
That Fox News report didn't have all of the facts, but it had a certain truthiness to it.
truthiness by Tony Johns January 9, 2006
Related Words

Truthishly 

The unintellegent way of saying Truthfully.
"I think that sometimes the government has things they can't tell us, and truthishly, we should just accept that."
Truthishly by KaitlynP July 7, 2008

Truthing 

When one does the opposite of telling lies.
When a person is not Lying, the person is truthing .
Truthing by Oxxy_Montalvy October 27, 2016

truthiness 

1. The concept that a person's perception and how they 'feel' about things supersedes fact

2. The complete disregard for any body of evidence or advice from the scientific community when contesting facts

3. Negation of events or information widely accepted to be true
"Truthiness is 'What I say is right, and nothing anyone else says could possibly be true.' " -Stephen Colbert
truthiness by Natalija Pavich August 1, 2008

truthing it 

Joe: "Yo dude, did you smack that chick for lying to you about her cell being lost?"
Nick: "No man, I couldn't. She was truthing it. I called up Verizon and checked up on her ass."
truthing it by stockman09 August 13, 2007
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trupti by Gabriel Jadon December 15, 2008