English Dictionary

truthiness

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtɹuːθinəs/

名詞

古語 稀用 不可算名詞 アメリカ英語 口語

(rare, archaic) Truthfulness. / (US, colloquial) Superficial or asserted truthfulness, without recourse to evidence.

日本語の意味

（古風な用法）誠実さ、真実性 / （米国の口語）根拠や証拠に乏しい、見かけ上の真実性

The villagers prized the truthiness of her testimony, believing she had never lied.

村人たちは彼女の証言の誠実さを重んじ、彼女が決して嘘をついたことはないと信じていた。

意味（1）

(rare, archaic) Truthfulness.

Truly may it be said, that her valuable qualities have been sanctified ; whilst her play of character has not been lost, but has been rendered more interesting than before. Every one who knows her is aware of her truthiness, and appreciates her kindness ; […]

意味（2）

(US, colloquial) Superficial or asserted truthfulness, without recourse to evidence.

'Cause you're looking at a straight-shooter, America. I tell it like it is. I calls 'em like I sees 'em. I will speak to you in plain simple English. And that brings us to tonight's word: truthiness.]

意味（3）

(programming) The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a Boolean context.

Usually, when you are receiving a Boolean value, you are most interested in checking its truthiness rather than its type.