truthiness
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈtɹuːθinəs/
truthiness (uncountable)
- (rare, archaic) Truthfulness. [from 19th c.]
- (US, colloquial) Superficial or asserted truthfulness, without recourse to evidence. [from 21st c.]
- Synonyms: truthlikeness, verisimilitude
- (programming) The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
- 2020, James Padolsey, Clean Code in JavaScript: Develop reliable, maintainable, and robust JavaScript, Packt Publishing Ltd (ISBN 9781789957297), page gbooks DprLDwAAQBAJ:
- Usually, when you are receiving a
Booleanvalue, you are most interested in checking its truthiness rather than its type.
- Usually, when you are receiving a
- 2020, James Padolsey, Clean Code in JavaScript: Develop reliable, maintainable, and robust JavaScript, Packt Publishing Ltd (ISBN 9781789957297), page gbooks DprLDwAAQBAJ:
- French: fausse vérité
- Russian: правдоподо́бность
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