post-truth
/ˌpəʊst ˈtɹuːθ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.90 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Beyond or superseding the importance of truth.
adj
Pertaining to an era or situation when truth is no longer significant, relevant, or expected.
noun
The fact or state of being post-truth; a time period or situation in which facts have become less important than emotional persuasion.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He is, he claims, post-God, post-reality, post-truth, post-meaning, post- history, post-world, post-Western […]"
- "Victims or exiles should not repeat any longer what everybody already knows in the new 'post-truth' world order – that they are among numerous contemporary victims of war crimes and military violence […]"
- "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."
- "In the post-truth world, the people are saturated by a plurality of discourses that are struggling for the consent of the audience, the difference being that the explosion of messages that characterises modernity is no longer stamped with the 'authority' of their authors."
- "In Christianity Today, columnist Charles Colson bemoaned our “post-truth society,” which produces liars such as Tawana Brawley, David Brock, and Stephen Ambrose."
- "Avoiding a cacophony is a worthy objective, because Australia has managed to largely sidestep the post-truth hellscape the US has endured during the pandemic because politicians, by and large, have chosen to inhabit a universe of shared facts and common messages."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˌpəʊst ˈtɹuːθ/