“Truthiness.”

This is according to the 16th annual vote of the American Dialect Society. Popularized by Stephen Colbert, truthiness, says the ADS, “refers to the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true.”

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 12th, 2006 at 8:53 am and is filed under This 'n' That.