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单词 truthiness
释义

truthiness

/ˈtruːθɪnəs /
noun [mass noun] informal
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."

Origin

Early 19th century (in the sense 'truthfulness'): coined in the modern sense by the US humorist Stephen Colbert.

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