Post-truth
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌpəʊst ˈtɹuːθ/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Post-truth is an adjective meaning Pertaining to an era or situation when truth is no longer significant, relevant, or expected.
Meaning
Pertaining to an era or situation when truth is no longer significant, relevant, or expected.
More Meanings
- (usually derogatory) Uncaring or disregarding factual accuracy.
- The fact or state of being post-truth; a time period or situation in which facts have become less important than emotional persuasion.
- (chiefly politics, media) Beyond or superseding the importance of truth.
Example Sentences
Post-truth has also been abetted by the evolution of the media.
He is, he claims, post-God, post-reality, post-truth, post-meaning, post- history, post-world, post-Western […]
In Christianity Today, columnist Charles Colson bemoaned our “post-truth society,” which produces liars such as Tawana Brawley, David Brock, and Stephen Ambrose.
Clearly quite a lot of journalism is post-truth . . . More important, perhaps, is journalism's post-truth tendency . . . to make no propositions for which there is a possible 'true/false' response.
Word Forms
- posttruth
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fact-free, truthless, postmoral, factless, soothless, lite.
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