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

Word of the Day on September 7, 2006

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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

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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

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