truehood
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From true + -hood, modelled after falsehood. Compare Middle English treuhede, trewhede (“faithfulness; the quality of being in the right”, literally “true-hood”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]truehood (countable and uncountable, plural truehoods)
- (countable) a true statement; a truth.
- 2011, Robert Littell, Mother Russia:
- “What about disseminating truehoods that also happen to be derogatory?”
- (uncountable) the property of being true; truth.
- 1959, Curtis Bok, Star Wormwood, page 56:
- It is part good, part evil, part falsehood, part truehood.