Truthy

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈtɹuːθi/

Origin

From truth + -y. In colloquial sense, after truthiness.

Full definition of truthy

Adjective

1. (obsolete) Faithful; true. 19th c.
• You … are afraid Theodore your sweetheart shouldn't prove truthy.
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.
• 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 to

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• (computing) falsy

Derived terms

• truthiness