different between facty vs truthy

English

Etymology

fact +? -y. Doublet of factic.

Adjective

facty

1. (dated, informal) Consisting principally of facts
   • 1883 November 2, Pall Mall Gazette, page 5 i, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, 1st edition, volume 4, published 1901, page 15:

     A 'facty' article on 'The Political Condition of Spain'.

Synonyms

• factful

Derived terms

• factiness

Related terms

• factual
• factitious
• factic

See also

• truthy

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

English

Etymology

From truth +? -y. In colloquial sense, back-formation from truthiness.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?u??i/
• Rhymes: -u??i

Adjective

truthy (comparative truthier, superlative truthiest)

1. (obsolete) Faithful; true. [19th c.]
2. (US, colloquial) Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts. [from 21st c.]
   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 595:

     Historians today point out that each of these ringing assertions was, at best, truthy.

3. (computing, programming) Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.

Synonyms

• faithful, honest
• truthlike, truthful, truthsome, veridical

Antonyms

• (computing): falsy

Derived terms

• truthiness

See also

• facty

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.