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Merriam-Webster Online
Merriam-Webster’s #1 Word of the Year for 2006 based on votes from visitors to our Web site:1. truthiness (noun)
1 : “truth that comes from the gut, not books” (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” October 2005)
2 : “the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true” (American Dialect Society, January 2006)
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