单词 | post-truth |
释义 | post-truthadj. 1. Occurring after or resulting from a disclosure of the truth. rare. ΚΠ 1985 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 1 Sept. 72/2 State Cabinet..went into post-truth trauma when it discovered the family company of the Minister for Two-Up and Other Means of Making a Quid had an application in for betting shop. 2. Originally U.S. Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping political debate or public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. ΚΠ 1992 Nation (N.Y.) 6 Jan. 13/1 Dictators up to now have had to work hard at suppressing the truth. We, by our actions, are saying that this is no longer necessary... We, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some post-truth world. 2004 R. Keyes Post-truth Era i. 15 In the post-truth era we don't just have truth and lies, but a third category of ambiguous statements that are not exactly the truth but fall short of a lie. 2012 Guardian 11 Sept. 36/3 The press is grappling with so-called post-truth politics, or the tendency among candidates in election year not just to twist the facts but to keep blatantly doing so even when they're caught. 2016 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 Nov. 15 Social media..has become a post-truth nether world in which readers willingly participate in their own deception because it feels good. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1985 |
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