different between truthiness vs factiness

English

Etymology

From truthy +? -ness. Modern sense coined by American comedian Stephen Colbert in 17 October 2005 on his show The Colbert Report.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?u??in?s/

Noun

truthiness (uncountable)

1. (rare, archaic) Truthfulness. [from 19th c.]
2. (US, colloquial) Superficial or asserted truthfulness, without recourse to evidence. [from 21st c.]

   Synonyms: truthlikeness, verisimilitude
3. (programming) The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
   • 2020, James Padolsey, Clean Code in JavaScript: Develop reliable, maintainable, and robust JavaScript, Packt Publishing Ltd (?ISBN), page 181:

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

Related terms

• untruthiness

Translations

See also

• alternative fact
• cognitive dissonance
• cognitive relativism
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Further reading

• truthiness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• American Dialect Society's Word of the Year (2005)

References

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

English

Etymology

facty +? -ness

Noun

factiness (uncountable)

1. The state of being full of, or solely concerned with, facts

Synonyms

• factfulness

Related terms

• factuality
• facticity
• truthiness