truthy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From truth + -y. In colloquial sense, after truthiness.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
truthy (comparative truthier, superlative truthiest)
- (obsolete) Faithful; true. [19th c.]
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c. 1800, J. H. Colls, Theodore:
- You […] are afraid Theodore your sweetheart shouldn't prove truthy.
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- (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.
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 595:
- (computing, programming) Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
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2012, David Flanagan, JavaScript Pocket Reference, page 40:
- In JavaScript, any expression or statement that expects a boolean value will work with a truthy or falsy value, so the fact that
&&does not always evaluate totrueorfalsedoes not cause practical problems.
- In JavaScript, any expression or statement that expects a boolean value will work with a truthy or falsy value, so the fact that
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Synonyms[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
- (computing): falsy
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editor (1884–1928) A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697; and The Oxford English Dictionary; being a Corrected Re-issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (the First Supplement), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933, OCLC 2748467.
